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• Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

  Richard G. Scott

  Memories, Guilt, Trying

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• Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

  Claire Vaye Watkins

  Memories, Wife, Kitchen

  Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.26, Granta Books

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• We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Memories, Hair, Skins

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• I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, Writing, Labels

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Memories, Stories

  "The riddle of experience vs. memory". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

  Robin Sharma

  Memories, Imagination, Firsts

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.43, Jaico Publishing House

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• If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.55, Penguin

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• If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

  Ivan Klíma

  Memories, Being Me, Forget

  Ivan Klíma, Paul R. Wilson (1994). “The spirit of Prague: and other essays”, Granta (NY)

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• If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Powerful, Writing

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• Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Memories, Creativity, Senses

  Arthur Rimbaud (2013). “A Season in Hell & Illuminations”, Modern Library

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• Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Father, Book

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• When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

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• In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.

  Steven Brust

  Memories, Lying, Skins

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• She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.

  Graham Greene

  Memories, Individuality, Dying

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• But any Time is with us. And if we take control to shape our attitude and reshape our memories, that time is always now, - our time for the best possible uses of our lives.

  Keorapetse Kgositsile

  Memories, Attitude, Use

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• I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Past, Sides

  "Everything Is Illuminated". www.imdb.com. October 14, 2005.

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• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Memories, Diaries

  Eugene O'Neill (1932). “Nine Plays”

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• An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

  Timothy Foote

  Memories, Powerful, Real

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• Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Feelings, Our Actions

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.

  Eudora Welty

  Art, Memories, Writing

  Eudora Welty (2002). “On Writing”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Memories, Effectiveness, Numbers

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• How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Science, Discovery

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• I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Memories, Past, Thinking

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• Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command. So we just have to let the forgetting happen as it will; we shouldn't rush it, and we certainly should not doubt the genuineness of our forgiving if we happen to remember. The really important thing is that we have the power to forgive what we still do remember.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Memories, Doubt, Forgiving

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• Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.

  Keith Urban

  Memories, Cat, Weather

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