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• Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

  George Jean Nathan

  Drama, Adventure, Soul

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.3, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?

  John Rzeznik

  Stars, Past, Scar

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• Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

  Daniel Handler

  Gutters, Glitter, Lasts

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Memories, Offers

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• I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

  Vittorio De Sica

  Thieves, Way, Film

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• The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Night, Knees

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• What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. “Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese handcuffs.” Annabeth forced herself to stay calm. “How about you start from the top—of the story, not the backpack.

  Rick Riordan

  Couple, Atlanta, Snow

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• I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Debt

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• For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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• My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

  Roger Ebert

  Memories, Home, Paris

  "I do not fear death" by Roger Ebert, www.salon.com. September 15, 2011.

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• I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

  Muhammad Ali

  Blood, Boxing, Looks

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• All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Self, Brain

  "The Brain on Love" by Diane Ackerman, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Museums, Odds, Kitsch

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• I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

  Ken Jennings

  Kids, Vacation, Comic

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Mar 15, 2012

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• Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Strength, Color, Etc

  Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

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• My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.

  Emilie de Ravin

  Mom, Memories, Color

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• Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Past, Scar, Healed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.115, Macmillan

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• The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

  Stephanie Klein

  Love Is, Amusement, Way

  "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.

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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

  Rex Stout

  Book, Stories, Letters

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs.

  Miranda Kerr

  Underwear, Lingerie, Lace

  "Miranda Kerr: 'Models Are Some of The Most Insecure People I've Met'". Interview with Katie Connor, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.

  Larry Sultan

  Photography, Vacation, Ideas

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• We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king

  Peter Weiss

  Running, Country, Kings

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• Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Keys, World, Helping

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• A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Travel, Experience

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process was especially magnified within the fevers of influenza, measles, chickenpox, and mumps. I got them all and with each I was privileged with a new level of awareness. Lying deep within myself, the symmetry of a snowflake spinning above me, intensifying through my lids, I seized a most worthy souvenir, a shard of heaven’s kaleidoscope.

  Patti Smith

  Lying, Imagination, Heaven

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.5, A&C Black

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