Top Memory Quotes
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
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
James Branch Cabell 
Diane Sawyer 
Mary McAleese 
Charlotte Bronte 
Candice Bergen 
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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman 
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell
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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
Richard Russo
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My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
Jane Horrocks
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
Wesley Clark
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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
Jonathan Lethem
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One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Pierre Corneille
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Popular Memory Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroBenjamin Disraeli PlatoAbraham LincolnFrancis BaconGeorge EliotGeorge SantayanaThomas Fuller
Michel de MontaigneDavid Herbert LawrenceAldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusGertrude SteinRobert FrostElbert HubbardOliver Wendell HolmesRichard M. NixonJosh BillingsCharles BaudelairePierre Corneille
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