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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory,.


Kazuo Ishiguro

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KAZUO ISHIGURO Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memo...
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JAMILA WOODS The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.
PITTACUS LORE The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the act...
MERLIN DONALD Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps...
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RACHAEL TAYLOR About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had ...
DAVID RAKOFF I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people ...
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CHRISTINA MILIAN We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a di...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful m...
NATSUKI TAKAYA Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us die...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that ki...
ELIE WIESEL That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kin...
ELIE WIESEL That is my major preoccupation /memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kin...
ELIE WIESEL There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits so...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The last drive, to me, I can see it better on film than I can see it as a memory. My memory is a blu...
JUSTIN HOLLAND We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
FRANK MCCOURT I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization...
RAY WALSTON I have no memory of anything, but I know what it is like to lose someone that you love.
JUDY COX I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
STUDS TERKEL The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
LORD BYRON To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Fi...
CLAUDE SIMON If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from ...
TAYLOR CALDWELL But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only...
ANSELM KIEFER Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
ASHIM SHANKER Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
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D. H. LAWRENCE A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread o...
DAVE CAREY The first moment I saw Phil act is a really vivid memory for me,
DAN FUTTERMAN Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
GEORGES DUHAMEL Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Sometimes a memory is stuck in your memory for eternity
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and d...
DEEPAK CHOPRA My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.
AMANDA HARLECH Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, t...
THOMAS MERTON A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the...
GRANDMA MOSES A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the...
ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, th...
GRANDMA MOSES Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted
JAMES BRANCH CABELL Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. [On virtual memory]
SEYMORE CRAY My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading ...
CHELSEA CLINTON Most people don't like to think of themselves as nuts, ... It's common to shut off the part of memor...
MARK MILLS But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
JODI PICOULT It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become...
LAURA WADE Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
ANN-MARIE MACDONALD I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of i...
DENIS NORDEN All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's t...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN part memory part distance remaining
mine in the ways that I learn to miss you
W.S. MERWIN The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of m...
PAUL AUSTER Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.
JOHN LAHR Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed o...
THOMAS FULLER Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take h...
THOMAS FULLER It's amazing how a traumatic memory can remain very much alive. It doesn't behave like a regular mem...
ALAIN BRUNET Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - ...
GEORGES DUHAMEL Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
C.S. LEWIS This is not what most people think of traditionally when they think of memory loss. It feels like a ...
MARK MAPSTONE I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN I was under medication. And my memory, it wasn't clear like it is now, today.
ABNER LOUIMA There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory la...
JEFFREY BERNARD My favorite memory about 'Baywatch' is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, m...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.
JACQUELINE WOODSON History is the memory of life
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Gratitude is the conscience of memory
LIONEL HAMPTON Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
WAYNE GRADY Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at the...
W. G. SEBALD Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If there is any substitute for love, it is memory
JOSEPH BRODSKY If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.
JOSEPH BRODSKY What's the difference?" You ask me
The difference is, a smile touches my lips
When I remem...
TAMMY-LOUISE WILKINS Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where...
JOSé LUíS PEIXOTO Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
ISAAC MARION Remember Me: Comfort me with your thoughts from afar. . . For in memory and thoughts travel through ...
MARLENE M. CHAVEZ Most of us are familiar with the fact that we can remember things better if those memories are forme...
JAMES OLSON Most of us are familiar with the fact that we can remember things better if those memories are forme...
JAMES OLSON All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.
ASHIM SHANKER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA Memory is the scribe of the soul.
ARISTOTLE Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
ITALIAN PROVERB Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
FRENCH PROVERB Memory is the library of the mind
FRANCIS FAUVEL-GOURAND Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will ...
MARKUS ZUSAK This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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