#memory

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins. ↗

— Kay Boyle

#memory #picture #reconstruct #ruins #you

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ↗

— Andre Breton

#above #always #amazed #attaches #been

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#age #callous #comparatively #earlier #easily

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#believe #fast #function #i #i believe

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attention #memory #true #true art

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. ↗

— Noel Coward

#elephant #elephants #fact #i #in fact

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning