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Memory Quotes
September 11 2002
"Memory ... is the diary that we all carry about with us." - Oscar Wilde
"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing" - Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker
"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." - L. P. Hartley
"The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust." - Elizabeth Bowen
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." - Salvador Dalí
"Every man's memory is his private literature." - Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." - Albert Schweitzer
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." - Willa Cather
"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it." - Georges Duhamel
"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." - Vladimir Nabokov
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." - John Lancaster Spalding