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• You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Memories, Slides

  Roger Ebert (1985). “A Kiss Is Still a Kiss”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

  Padgett Powell

  Memories, Writing, Liberty

  Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.22, Profile Books

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• It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that they had loved. You do not want that, surely? I have heard some preach that God wants us to forget the dead, but I cannot believe so. I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love. You must cherish your memories of your babes, Anna, until you see them again in Heaven.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Memories, Love You, Believe

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• I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.

  Lucy Hughes-Hallett

  Memories, Reading, Writing

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• An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

  Timothy Foote

  Memories, Powerful, Real

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• A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Religious, Memories, Thinking

  "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error". Book by Kathryn Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• When you bounce your eyes away from a sexual image, immediately pull from your memory a pure image. Maybe a wedding picture, or a vacation experience with your family, or your buddies. There are thousands of positive images you can pull from your memory within seconds to replace the sexual images you're tempted with.

  Steve Arterburn

  Memories, Eye, Vacation

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• Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Memories, Creativity, Senses

  Arthur Rimbaud (2013). “A Season in Hell & Illuminations”, Modern Library

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• Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Feelings, Our Actions

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Powerful, Writing

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• Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

  Jan Timman

  Memories, Forever, Chess

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• We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Memories, Hair, Skins

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• Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Memories, Stories

  "The riddle of experience vs. memory". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

  Robin Sharma

  Memories, Imagination, Firsts

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.43, Jaico Publishing House

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• Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

  Claire Vaye Watkins

  Memories, Wife, Kitchen

  Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.26, Granta Books

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• But any Time is with us. And if we take control to shape our attitude and reshape our memories, that time is always now, - our time for the best possible uses of our lives.

  Keorapetse Kgositsile

  Memories, Attitude, Use

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• Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

  Richard G. Scott

  Memories, Guilt, Trying

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• I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, Writing, Labels

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

  Gwen Stefani

  Funny, Memories, Frightening

  Song: Don't Speak

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• What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

  Richard Eyre

  Memories, Feelings, Humanity

  "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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• It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.

  David J. Schwartz

  Happiness, Memories, Self

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• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Memories, Diaries

  Eugene O'Neill (1932). “Nine Plays”

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• If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what you can hold in your memory and what you lose. That's an interesting thing to try to paint.

  Ross Bleckner

  Art, Memories, Interesting

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• I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

  Carl De Keyzer

  Memories, Levels, Want

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• It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.

  Roger Ebert

  Crush, Girl, Teenage

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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