"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories."

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"'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone."

Thomas More, English Author

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"...many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of his life. We could watch him in his rocking chair on his front porch, his eyes squinted, half-closed, endlessly traveling to Honolulu."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Memory, Travel, Time, Space

"If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Memory, Crows, Sound, Emotion

"Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do."

Nalini Singh, New Zealander Author

Memory, Persistence, Loss, Truth

"I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea."

Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist

Memory, Choice, Adventure, Risk, Emotion

"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

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"Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legsand arms used to be. That's how his mindfelt-like his missing memories were aching."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Memory, Truth, Life, Regret, Power

"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Memory, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."

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"'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone."

"If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains."

"I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off."

"Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do."

"I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain."

"The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea."

"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

"Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legsand arms used to be. That's how his mindfelt-like his missing memories were aching."

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"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

"The first requisite for immortality is death."

"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody."

"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind."

"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood."

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"