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• We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Frozen, Jars

  Oliver Sacks (2012). “Hallucinations”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Fighting, Men

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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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• A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

  Raul Julia

  Memories, Remembrance, Reminiscing

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• Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Memories, Humor

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• We have all forgot more than we remember.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, Remember

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• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Luxury, Done

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.23, Diversion Books

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• I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

  David Blunkett

  Events, Honest

  Blunkett's resignation statement, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.

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• The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Writing, Technology, Found You

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

  Sue Grafton

  Stars, Memories, Dark

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• This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Imagination, Miracle, Mind

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• How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

  Samuel Woodworth

  Nature, Heart, Views

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• Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

  James E. Talmage

  Abiding, Fleeting, Pleasure

  James E. Talmage (2015). “Jesus the Christ”, p.206, Latter-day Strengths

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• Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Memories, Feels

  The Irrational Knot (1905) ch. 14

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• Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Past, Keywords

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• Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wish, Idealism

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• I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

  Lord Byron

  Mother, Good Day, Law

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

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• The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

  Publilius Syrus

  Anger, Kindles

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• He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

  John Banville

  Fear, Dark, Space

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• Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Memories, Selective, Fortunate

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• Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it.Forever.

  Simone Elkeles

  Memorable, Kissing, Night

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.

  Frederick Douglass

  Cheer, Angel, Careers

  Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (1849). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.31

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• If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

  Christopher Fry

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Christopher Fry (1957). “The Dark is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy”, p.58, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Memories, People, Interesting

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• The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

  Donna Tartt

  Art, Jobs, Lying

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