#memo

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#angel #breath #dominant #entire #habits

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#completely #every #fire #i #meant

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#lose #memories #past #ryan #some

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#biography #considered #contains #degree #fiction

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. ↗

— Paracelsus

#artistic #artists #been #desired #dreams

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#anything #attached #clothes #comes #complete

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. ↗

— Jean Paul

#aged #away #been #foes #grave

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#becoming #lives #memory

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#going #good #i #memory #thankful

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable