Quotes with memory

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  • Louise Erdrich Hunger steals the memory.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jorge Luis Borges I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Umberto Eco I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.
    (2015)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Noel Coward I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Augustus William Hare I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Ben Jonson I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio On William Shakespeare
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Elie Wiesel I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Charles Dickens I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
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  • Anna Akhmatova I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Aleister Crowley I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I've a grand memory for forgetting.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • A. E. Housman If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Elie Wiesel If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
    Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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  • David Leavitt In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • George Santayana In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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