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She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She ...

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It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who w...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for some...

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Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age,...

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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and r...

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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rat...

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I thought of you and how you love this beauty,And walking up the long beach all aloneI heard the wav...

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Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all...

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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplic...

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I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't unders...

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But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again.""Yes" I said, "they come back, b...

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Stefan ZweigLetter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial,...

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Stefan ZweigReisen mit Stefan Zweig: Gedichte

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never...

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Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think tha...

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He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but de...

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You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes bac...

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The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was ...

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This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—

Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to ...

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My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and t...

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In my dreams I come face to face with myriad reflections of myself, all unknown and passing strange....

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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, th...

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From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that y...

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I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning m...

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I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.

MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love h...

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or...

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The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere after...

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Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days a...

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I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The rav...

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And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are ...

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Is it not possible — I often wonder — that thingswe have felt with great intensity have anexperience...

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Is it not possible — I often wonder — that things we have felt with great intensity have an experien...

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Virginia WoolfMoments of Being

For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were...

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Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the n...

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As Ganin looked up at the skeletal roof in the ethereal sky he realized with merciless clarity that ...

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the ...

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That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, stil...

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Walter MosleyThe Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

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Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along b...

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However much they may smile at her, the old inhabitants would miss Tillie. Her stories give them som...

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What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least sc...

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William FaulknerLion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in ...

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William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury

Never would I have a more memorable time than the month I spent in the mountains, though I wonder, w...

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There are things, also, that are memories as essential and structural as bones in toes and fingers.

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A. S. ByattThe Children's Book

To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the ...

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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through li...

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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---b...

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I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts ...

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To see something marvellous with your own eyes - that’s wonderful enough. But when two of you see it...

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I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simple...

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I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memo...

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Memories of that which we have lost are curious things - weeks, months, even years may pass without ...

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You are young," replied Athos, "and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.

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Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the no...

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I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns.Sometimes it's like ...

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I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I’m disgusting. I can’...

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But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the m...

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I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell the...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies ...

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The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them

Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and do...

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. Yo...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be ...

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Barbara KingsolverThe Poisonwood Bible

A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.

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Barbara KingsolverThe Poisonwood Bible

It was so bad, it was worth more than we paid.

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Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor ...

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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me hap...

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Bill WattersonIt's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' ...

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Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...

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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Let me advise you, my dear young friend-- nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you...

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I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

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Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only ficti...

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Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spec...

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Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It...

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I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return tick...

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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse th...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,list...

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There were some memories, though, that never faded.

Shapes began to appear in the mist as it thickened. Clary saw herself and Simon as children, holding...

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There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable...

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Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long night...

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There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your min...

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