Old Memories Quotes - Page 2

• Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Writing, Easy

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

  Sherry Thomas

  Memories, Would Be, Supremacy

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• We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Pain, Memories

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• That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

  Manu Joseph

  Memories, Reality, Men

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.10, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Love is . . .” An old memory with Adrian came back to me, and some of the turbulent emotion I always carried within me these days welled up in my chest. It was stupid, feeling so lovesick when he’d been gone less than a day, but I couldn’t get him or the ways he described love out of my head. “. . . a flame in the dark. A breath of warmth on a winter’s night. A star that guides you home.

  Richelle Mead

  Stars, Memories, Stupid

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.77, Penguin

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• The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

  Lewis Thomas

  Memories, Thinking, Smell

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• When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Names, Culture

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• Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

  Brad Meltzer

  Memories, Who We Are, Matter

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.

  DJ Spooky

  Memories, Sound, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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