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• The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

  Alan Coren

  Today, Useless, Cigarette

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.183, Canongate Books

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• Marriage: a souvenir of love.

  Helen Rowland

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.

  Jean Reno

  Shoes, Cameras, Directors

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• Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.

  Larry Sultan

  Photography, Vacation, Ideas

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• Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

  Diane Johnson

  Travel, Thinking, Islands

  Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

  George Jean Nathan

  Drama, Adventure, Soul

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.3, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Memories, Offers

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• The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Night, Knees

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• Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?

  John Rzeznik

  Stars, Past, Scar

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• A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Spring, Years, Hiking

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• I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Debt

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• I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs.

  Miranda Kerr

  Underwear, Lingerie, Lace

  "Miranda Kerr: 'Models Are Some of The Most Insecure People I've Met'". Interview with Katie Connor, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 1, 2013.

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

  Ken Jennings

  Kids, Vacation, Comic

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Mar 15, 2012

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• I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

  Vittorio De Sica

  Thieves, Way, Film

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• All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Self, Brain

  "The Brain on Love" by Diane Ackerman, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 24, 2012.

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• When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'

  Jay Leno

  Fun, Oil, President

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• Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Strength, Color, Etc

  Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

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• My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.

  Emilie de Ravin

  Mom, Memories, Color

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• I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.

  Wilson Rawls

  Oil, White, Long

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• A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Travel, Experience

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king

  Peter Weiss

  Running, Country, Kings

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• My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.

  Jason Mraz

  Writing, Creating, World

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!" Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?" "No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Dad, Phones

  Rick Riordan (2016). “The 39 Clues 1: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones”, p.107, Scholastic UK

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• Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past, Scar, Healed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.115, Macmillan

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