#memo

Memories are doing funny things to us. ↗

— Milos Forman

#funny #funny things #memories #things #us

Liars need to have good memories. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#liars #memories #need

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ↗

— Nathan Hale

#country #i #life #lose #only

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge. ↗

— Tove Jansson

#forgotten-memories #age

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

#carved #epitaph #failed #forth #freedom

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#i #i hope that #lose #memory #valued

My main memories of my father are of his illness. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#his #illness #main #memories

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#claiming #distrusted #easier #fiction #get

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget. ↗

— Richard Sheridan

#forget #independent #memories #our #wills

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#content #each #memorable #poet #three