#memo

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#attained #begin #circumstance #commence #earliest

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. ↗

— Ray Charles

#damn #develop #ear #good #good memory

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#arrived #degree #embraced #eminence #fame

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#card #consulted #control #disorder #memories

A good memory is needed after one has lied. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#good #good memory #lied #memory #needed

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#values

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#values

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#attention

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more

Memories fall like snowflakes upon my dreams. The snowflakes toss and tumble, each different and yet the same. ↗

— Lisa Schroeder

#dreams