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• Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

  Frances Mayes

  Forever, Spots, Expected

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• Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.

  Nick Drake

  Sadness, Long Ago, Theatre

  Song: Fruit Tree

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• Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Kissing, Night

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Yield, Done

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• So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Eye, Ideas

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Pain, Loneliness

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• Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

  William Shakespeare

  Hair, Cities, Upbraid

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

  Umberto Eco

  Time Flies, Humans

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• I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.

  Samuel Beckett

  Lying, Writing, Age

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• Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Beautiful, Fall

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1, 1996.

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• From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

  J. K. Rowling

  Leaving, Together, Foundation

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• The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.

  Shelby Foote

  Dust, Imagination, Creative

  Shelby Foote (2011). “The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville”, p.815, Vintage

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• Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

  Colum McCann

  Land, Impossible, Heavy

  Colum McCann (2008). “Zoli: A Novel”, p.66, Random House

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• maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liiked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning- and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better to not know the lyrics to your life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Song, Ignorance, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

  Gregory Maguire

  Heart, Body, Who We Are

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• And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?

  Emily Bronte

  Pain, Drinking, Indulge In

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.100, The Floating Press

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• Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Play, Stories, Knees

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.

  John Dufresne

  Writing, Love Is, Interesting

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sorry, Couple, Ocean

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• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

  Tom Stoppard

  Inspirational, Eye, Bridges

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.61, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sorry, Years, Stories

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• I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could.

  Nicole Krauss

  Dad, Winning, World

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the memory of experiences well loved. It tempers our troubles to our growth and our strength. It befriends us in the dark hours, excites us in bright ones. It lends promise to the future and purpose to the past. It turns discouragement to determination. Samuel Smiles

  Samuel Smiles

  Determination, Dark, Past

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• See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

  Jodi Picoult

  World, Want, Bitter

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Lying, Night, Moonlight

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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