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• Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

  Karen Chance

  Fun, Beer, Night

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.241, Penguin

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• [Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Eye, May, Reason

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• That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, Farewell, Light

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.

  Marcel Proust

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  Marcel Proust, Philip Kolb (1992). “Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917”, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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• Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Father, Clay, Use

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Frostbitten”, p.175, Random House Canada

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• An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

  Benjamin Carson

  Knowledge, Learning, Helping Others

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• There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

  Jim Morrison

  Rain, Weather, Theatre

  "The lords, and The new creatures: poems".

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• I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Lonely, Memories, Men

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• It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.

  Annie Dillard

  Tree, Mind, Mountain

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• What happened to the alpha-wolf?" "LEGOs." "Legos?" It sounded Greek but I couldn't recall anything mythological with that name. Wasn't it an island? "He was carrying a load of laundry into the basement and tripped on the old set of LEGOs his kids left on the stairs. Broke two ribs and an ankle.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kids, Islands, Names

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.86, Penguin

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• In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Years, Finals

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.90, Penguin UK

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• Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

  J. K. Rowling

  Professor Mcgonagall, Professors, Particular

  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Memories, White, Availability

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• Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

  Abraham Verghese

  Vanity, Yesterday, Riches

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• Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Inability, Riches, Poverty

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• These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

  Pat Conroy

  Heart, Childhood, Remember

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.230, Open Road Media

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• Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.

  Haruki Murakami

  Revenge, Yield, Cost

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• The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.

  John Green

  Sacrifice, Compassion, Voice

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.202, Penguin

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• And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, Darkness, Shadow

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 08, 2016

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• I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Believe, Hero, Alternatives

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “A Princess of Mars (Science Fiction Classic): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Barsoom Series, Llana of Gathol, Pirates of Venus, The Land That Time Forgot & Pellucidar”, p.11, e-artnow

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• I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Dream, Sorry, Sleep

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Sorrow, Misery

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you okay?" I sighed,my sodden coat chilling me to the bone. "Peachy.Made a new friend." He pulled me up by the hand,unzipping my coat and yanking it off me. "Shirt,too,please." "No!" "It's only fair. I seem to recall you making me strip the first time we met.

  Kiersten White

  Hands, Firsts, Coats

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• But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .

  Ken Kesey

  Strong, Real, Kids

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.469, Penguin

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• But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

  Julie Gregory

  Memories

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