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Quotations by Subject: Memory (27 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.: James Carroll
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Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.: Gordon Atkinson, weblog, 04-29-04
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Results from Classic Quotes:

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.: Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio
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