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• Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

  Graham Swift

  Memories, Writing, Emotional

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• Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Memories, Simple, Names

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.35, Penguin

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• The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Heart, Names

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.98, A&C Black

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• Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.

  Julio Cortazar

  Memories, Speak, Deceiving

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• Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Real, Events

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Flower, Past

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• All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Memories, Philosophy

  "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, (Ch. 6), 2001.

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• To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.

  John H. Lienhard

  Memories, Mean, Science

  John H. Lienhard (2006). “How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines”, p.227, Oxford University Press

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• If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

  Heloise

  Memories, Regret, Character

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• Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

  Nita Leland

  Art, Memories, Book

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

  Nido R Qubein

  Memories, Goal, Important

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• Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Real, Feel Good

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• All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Shadow, Empires

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• It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

  Eva Heller

  Memories, Long, Common

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• If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

  Allen Grossman

  Memories, Fate, People

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• By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Depth, Shame

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

  B. F. Skinner

  Memories, Men, Thinking

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• Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Memories, Imagination, Exploitation

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• Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

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• We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Sight, Ideas

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Memories, Humble

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• Sometimes you don't know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of myself held up by my grandfather and my father standing next to me. We all have the same name - we're all called Anton Corbijn. That's something I cherish.

  Anton Corbijn

  Memories, Father, Nice

  "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.

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• To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

  George Schaller

  Memories, Rhythm Of Life, Imagination

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• Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.

  Donna Karan

  Spiritual, Memories, Powerful

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• You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Memories, Heart, People

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

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