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Image of Rebecca Walker
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds us, sets our stance. But what we remember is past, it no longer exists, and yet we hold on to it, live by it, surrender so much control to it. What do we become when we put down the scripts written by history and memory, when each person before us can be seen free of the cultural or personal narrative we've inherited or devised? When we, ourselves, can taste that freedom.
- Rebecca Walker
Collection: Memories
Image of Jean-Dominique Bauby
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.
- Jean-Dominique Bauby
Collection: Memories
Image of Jacqueline Susann
People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.
- Jacqueline Susann
Collection: Memories
Image of Michael Morpurgo
I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful.
- Michael Morpurgo
Collection: Memories
Image of Jeff Bridges
Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.
- Jeff Bridges
Collection: Memories
Image of Brett Ratner
There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."
- Brett Ratner
Collection: Memories
Image of Alan Watts
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.
- Alan Watts
Collection: Memories
Image of Muriel Barbery
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?
- Muriel Barbery
Collection: Memories
Image of Surya Das
We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.
- Surya Das
Collection: Memories
Image of Denise Levertov
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.
- Denise Levertov
Collection: Memories
Image of Alfred Noyes
If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
- Alfred Noyes
Collection: Memories
Image of C.C. Hunter
Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another hand grabbing her sent panic shooting through her veins. She swung around. "Whoa. You okay?" Lucas lightened his clasp around her arm. Kylie caught her breath and stared up at the werewolf's blue eyes. "Yeah. You just...surprised me. You need to whistle when you come up on me.
- C.C. Hunter
Collection: Memories
Image of Claudia Gray
Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.
- Claudia Gray
Collection: Memories
Image of Joan D. Vinge
A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
- Joan D. Vinge
Collection: Memories
Image of Kazuya Minekura
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.
- Kazuya Minekura
Collection: Memories
Image of Pierre Bonnard
Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.
- Pierre Bonnard
Collection: Memories
Image of David Friedrich Strauss
For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.
- David Friedrich Strauss
Collection: Memories
Image of Morrie Schwartz
As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on—in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here
- Morrie Schwartz
Collection: Memories
Image of Katherine Applegate
Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.
- Katherine Applegate
Collection: Memories
Image of Madeline Miller
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.
- Madeline Miller
Collection: Memories
Image of Nick  Drake
Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.
- Nick Drake
Collection: Memories
Image of Edward Albee
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
- Edward Albee
Collection: Memories
Image of Javier Marías
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.
- Javier Marías
Collection: Memories
Image of Scarlett Thomas
Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
- Scarlett Thomas
Collection: Memories
Image of Amelie Nothomb
Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.
- Amelie Nothomb
Collection: Memories
Image of Amy Krouse Rosenthal
It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Collection: Memories
Image of Carroll Quigley
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.
- Carroll Quigley
Collection: Memories
Image of Lance Reddick
I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.
- Lance Reddick
Collection: Memories
Image of Natasha Trethewey
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
- Natasha Trethewey
Collection: Memories
Image of Natasha Trethewey
What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
- Natasha Trethewey
Collection: Memories
Image of Edmund White
I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.
- Edmund White
Collection: Memories
Image of Amos Bronson Alcott
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Collection: Memories
Image of Jojo Moyes
I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
- Jojo Moyes
Collection: Memories
Image of Harry Mulisch
Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.
- Harry Mulisch
Collection: Memories
Image of Tim Winton
Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.
- Tim Winton
Collection: Memories
Image of Carol Shields
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
- Carol Shields
Collection: Memories
Image of W. G. Sebald
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.
- W. G. Sebald
Collection: Memories
Image of W. G. Sebald
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.
- W. G. Sebald
Collection: Memories
Image of Alexandra Potter
My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?' 'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly. 'But why not?' I look at him in surprise. 'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".
- Alexandra Potter
Collection: Memories
Image of Ivan Klíma
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
- Ivan Klíma
Collection: Memories
Image of Sam Savage
I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory
- Sam Savage
Collection: Memories
Image of Ralph Keyes
One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.
- Ralph Keyes
Collection: Memories
Image of Anthony Marra
There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.
- Anthony Marra
Collection: Memories
Image of Jules Renard
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
- Jules Renard
Collection: Memories
Image of Alexander Shulgin
The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.
- Alexander Shulgin
Collection: Memories
Image of Joshua Reynolds
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
- Joshua Reynolds
Collection: Memories
Image of Melina Marchetta
Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.
- Melina Marchetta
Collection: Memories
Image of Melina Marchetta
About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.
- Melina Marchetta
Collection: Memories