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Memory Quotes (page 44)

George R. R. Martin quote: "The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed..."
The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. George R. R. Martin
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero..."
Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders. Chuck Palahniuk
Emily Bronte quote: "I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he..."
I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives. Emily Bronte
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention. Anthony Bourdain
... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away. Charles de Lint
However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what... Arthur Schopenhauer
General Ivolgin, like all drunkards, was very emotional, and, like all drunkards who have sunk very low, he was much upset by memories of the happy past. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common. George Eliot
We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worship of humans to the fanatics—but aware as we are of his many crimes and contradictions we say with confidence that his memory and example will endure long after the moral pygmies who try to blot out his name have been forgotten. Christopher Hitchens
John Updike quote: "It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love..."
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. John Updike
Walter Benjamin quote: "Books, too, begin like the week? with a day of rest in memory..."
Books, too, begin like the week? with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday. Walter Benjamin
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. Edgar Allan Poe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be..."
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When the hammer strikes a nail, the extreme force of the blow on the broad head is transmitted without loss to the point. The head of the nail is the whole of eternity and the point of that nail is pressed to the center of the human heart. " [ quoting Simone Weil from memory ] George Oppen
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) Jonathan Franzen

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