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She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory.She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.
Stephen King
Every life has a soundtrack.There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There's another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the There's the song that reminds me of using fake ID to get into a nightclub; and the one that brings back my cousin Isobel's sweet sixteen, where I played Seven Minutes in Heaven with a boy whose breath smelled like tomato soup. If you ask me, music is the language of memory.
Jodi Picoult
The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
Chinese Proverb
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
Susan Sontag
You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.
C.S. Lewis
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
George Eliot
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, First publi
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Clifton Fadiman
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
We don't remember days; we remember moments.
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
Jean Paul
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
Enrico Fermi
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.
David Hackett Fischer, Historian
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington
