"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."

Memory, Childhood, Music, Grief

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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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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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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."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"We can invent only with memory."

Alphonse Karr, French Critic

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"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."

Cliff Fadiman, American Author

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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."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland."

Anselm Kiefer, German Artist

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"My life is an open book; at least this photo album."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

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"When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. ['Not without the past']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Memory, Illusion, Mind, Past

"That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad."

Louise Penny, Canadian Author

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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."

"I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ..."

"We can invent only with memory."

"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."

"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."

"But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland."

"My life is an open book; at least this photo album."

"When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. ['Not without the past']"

"That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad."

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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

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