"People always complain about their memories, never about their minds."
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"Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment."
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"Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have. ... Time is a now - and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But there is in reality only now."
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"She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love."
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"After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds."
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"Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock."
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"I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm."
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"Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny."
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"As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them."
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"The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama."
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"Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile."
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"To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep."
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"In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues."
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"It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence."
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"Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy."
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"I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged."
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"How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!"
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"Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be."
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"For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story."
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"Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song."
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