“I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.”
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“Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.”
“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.”
“The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.”
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.”
“I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.”
“There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.”
“The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.”
“I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.”
“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.”
“A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.”
“My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!”
“When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?”
“You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.”
“Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'”
“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
“Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.”
“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.”
“He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.”