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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
Memories

"It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift."

Heart Names Memories
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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
Memories

"How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it."

Memories Death Bitter
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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
Memories

"He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not."

Reality Party Memories
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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
Memories

"The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones."

Night Memories Air
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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
Memories

"He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not."

Past Night Memories
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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
Memories

"All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight."

Mean Memories Flower
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Charles Yu Author
Memories

"What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?"

Different Memories Rolling
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Charles Yu Author
Memories

"Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine."

Memories Taken Regret
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Betty Smith Author
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"We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it."

Thinking Song Memories
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Blake Butler Author
Memories

"What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It's more of a theoretical afterlife. If that's true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially interact or network. That space seems way more powerful and exciting than reality. This potential boundlessness is more of what god is to me."

Jesus Powerful Memories
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Bode Miller Alpine Ski Racer
Memories

"When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?"

Knows Memories Kind
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless."

People Memories Space
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again."

Men Memories Orange
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Memories

"I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down."

People Memories Self Esteem
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