#memory

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected. ↗

— Robert Welch

#comparatively #generalizations #had #his #impact

In memory everything seems to happen to music. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#happen #memory #music #seems

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#flow #funny #hit #how #memory

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dream #memory #today #tomorrow #yesterday

You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.' ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#agency #being #dream #embracing #family

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance. ↗

— Andy Grove

#assembly line #bloody #build #chips #designed

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. ↗

— David Halberstam

#less #memory #often #than #truth