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• It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mind, Tails, Mouths

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

  Roald Dahl

  School, Ties, Trying

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.28, Penguin

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• I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

  Claire Danes

  Flags, Lines, I've Learned

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• So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Loss, Race

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.179, Penguin

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• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Morning, Writing

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

  Junot Diaz

  Giving, Monsters, Narrative

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• I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can never forget it. But that dosen't mean I can live it again. You can't live what's gone, you can only remember it, and memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone - like faded photographs, or a dried-up daisy chain at the back of a drawer. They have no substance. They can't take you back. Nothing can take you back. Nothing can be the same as it was. Nothing is. All I can do is tell it.

  Kevin Brooks

  Mean, Forever, Gone

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• Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

  Penn Jillette

  Kids, Thinking, Sugar

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

  Quincy Jones

  Fence

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• By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

  Jay-Z

  Song, Thinking, Albums

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• My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Elimination, Impression, Values

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.441, Macmillan

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• All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mean, Past, Bigs

  "How Do Experiences Become Memories?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 24, 2013.

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• Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Doubt, Littles, Remember

  "How Do Experiences Become Memories?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 24, 2013.

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• I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

  Erica Jong

  Black And White, Play, Episodes

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.153, Open Road Media

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• I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

  Ken Kesey

  Used, Holes, Concerts

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• But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Believe, Palaces, Homeland

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• When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Night, Ideas, Creative

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• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Jewels, Ubuntu, Surfing

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• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Basketball, Boys

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• I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, Mother, Real

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• My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Cake, Saving, Aspens

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• I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Funeral, Lasts, Breathe

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Dream, Heart

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• I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Thinking, Common

  "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• The color white is the absence of memory.

  Stephen King

  Color White, Absence, Color

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