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One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.
These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.
Some of my greatest memories are of sleep-away camp; I did that three summers in a row when I was, like, 9,10, and 11.
[Fan In Lobby from Stardust Memories] that was just after The Dain Curse. My other big uncredited role from back then.
For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.
I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.
A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.
Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.
One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .
Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.
And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim.
I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.
Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.
The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house.
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.