#memo

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#forgetting #happiness #memory #happy

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#interesting #keep #memoir #mind #necessarily

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #incapable #me #memoir #publisher

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything? ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#chip #could #everything #head #into

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#back #date #existed #i #me

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#being #brain #directly #emotional #far

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#come #every #every night #hear #house

They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#either #fast #forever #give #i

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#existed #gives #lives #longer #memories