#memory

Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory. ↗

— John Irving

#memory #death

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#guardian #memory #things #treasury

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conspicuously #firmly #fixed #memory #nothing

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#imagination #life #memory #only #our

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families. ↗

— Susan Collins

#country #debt #down #ensure #families

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#called #chips #computers #crazy #different

No man surely has so short a memory as the American. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#man #memory #short #surely

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#area #between #gray #gray area #happened

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #came #childhood #hadn #having