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• As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.

  Rashida Jones

  Giving, Parent, Advice

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• Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

  Tennessee Williams

  Father, Home, Cycling

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• They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Sight, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.86, Dial Press

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• Now, now," said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. "I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie."Reynaud raised his eyebrows. "You did?""He did not," Hartley said even as Vale nodded happily. "I threw him down the stairs."Vale pursed his lips and looked skyward. "Not my recollection, but I can see how your memory of the event may've become hazy.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sweet, Memories, Eyebrows

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• Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.

  Brigham Young

  Errors, Childhood, Training

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• Women and elephants never forget.

  Dorothy Parker

  Memories, Inspiration, Elephants

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

  Fritz Kreisler

  Confused, War, Army

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is no return.

  Henry Abbey

  Lonely, Past, Land

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• Observation is an old man's memory.

  Jonathan Swift

  Memories, Men, Literature

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

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• Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

  Murray Kempton

  Commitment, Journey, Degrees

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• It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

  Roger Zelazny

  Heart, Anticipation, Moments

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

  Peter Watts

  Running, Climbing, Dancer

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.302, Macmillan

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• I recollect a nurse called Ann,
  Who carried me about the grass,
  And one fine day a fine young man
  Came up and kissed the pretty lass.
  She did not make the least objection.
  Thinks I, "Aha,
  When I can talk I'll tell Mama,"
  And that's my earliest recollection.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Men, Thinking, Nurse

  Frederick Locker-Lampson, “A Terrible Infant”

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• I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Vegetables

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• The limner's art may trace the absent feature,
  And give the eye of distant weeping faith
  To view the form of its idolatry;
  But oh! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted;
  The thoughts--the recollections sweet and bitter,--
  Th' Elysian dreams of lovers, when they loved,--
  Who shall restore them?

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Dream, Sweet, Art

  Charles Robert Maturin (1816). “Betram, Or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand: A Trgedy ...”, p.11

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• Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

  Augustus Hare

  Nature, Travel, Church

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• We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Fall, Errors

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.27

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• My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mean, Awards, Together

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

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• But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Memories, Powerful

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• During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Psychics, Years

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• The recollection of one upward hour
  Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
  The darkness of despondency, than years
  Of gayety and pleasure.

  James Gates Percival

  Cheer, Years, Darkness

  James Gates Percival (1822). “Prometheus, part II, with other poems”, p.105

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• Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

  Robert Breault

  Success, Kind, Materials

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• It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

  Martial

  Past, Former Life, Enjoy

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• My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Past, Doors

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• Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.

  John Cassian

  Men, Law, Circles

  John Cassian, Aeterna Press (2016). “John Cassian Collection [4 Books]”, p.671, Aeterna Press

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