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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."
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"Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk."
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"While we are floating against the current toward the future, our minds stay behind with the anchoring memories of the past."
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"I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."
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"The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."
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"Maybe I have never had the Christmas I remember, since we never remember the event itself but just the last time we revisited the memory. I have woven together a few dozen scraps (the Sears catalog, my father videoing everything we did, Christmas parties and visits with Santa) and pretended they amount to one perfect, cohesive moment, but I am as guilty as baby-boomers, who dictated unconsciously that all the songs they listened to in 1963 would be the timeless Christmas standards of today."
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"I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ..."
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"We can invent only with memory."
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"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."
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"The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."
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"I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."
Memory
"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."
Time
"She was appalled by West Egg's raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand."
Society
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
People
"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."
Body
"He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows."
Psychology
"We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?"
Reality
"There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul."
Spiritual
"One emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture."
Emotion
"There are no second acts in American lives."
Politics
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