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• I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

  Roald Dahl

  School, Ties, Trying

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.28, Penguin

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• I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

  Claire Danes

  Flags, Lines, I've Learned

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• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Morning, Writing

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

  Junot Diaz

  Giving, Monsters, Narrative

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• Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

  Denis Diderot

  Literature, Nails, Pithy

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations". Book by Tryon Edwards, 1908.

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• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

  Denis Diderot

  Philosophy, Medicine, Feelings

  "D'Alembert's Dream". Book by Denis Diderot, 1830.

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• Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

  Joan Didion

  Want, Remember

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.51, Knopf

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• Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Growing Up, Stuff

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Tired, Discipline

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• The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

  Umberto Eco

  Sick, Would Be, Function

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• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

  George Eliot

  God, Son, Race

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.468, 谷月社

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• And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

  Black Elk

  Men, People, Vision

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

  Paul Engle

  Christmas, Mother, Hands

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.182, University of Iowa Press

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• This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Doe, Emotion, Kind

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where "open form" or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term "heightened speech".

  James Fenton

  Voice, Aftermath, Speech

  "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dating, Literature, Pharaohs

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• To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Needs, Taste, Remember

  "Against Meat" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2009.

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• We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

  Joshua Foer

  Forgotten Things, Digital, Failing

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• Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

  Joshua Foer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ideas

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• I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

  Joshua Foer

  Trying, Might, Sometimes

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• If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

  Joshua Foer

  Going Away, Locks, Want

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

  Joshua Foer

  Simple, Squirrels, Phones

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• One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

  Joshua Foer

  Eye, Journey, Space

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• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  Joshua Foer

  Summer, Jobs, Weekend

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• Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

  Joshua Foer

  Photography, Technology, Smartphones

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