#memory

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. ↗

— Rachael Ray

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water. ↗

— Eugène Ionesco

#reality #dreams

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#bad #keys #memory

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

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

Too much truth is uncouth. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

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I think all writing is done through memory. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#i #i think #memory #think #through

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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