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"My life is an open book; at least this photo album."
"Memory may be pig-headed and want us to follow its whims along the blips and dips of our time line. ['All the words he always wanted to tell her.']"
"What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not."
"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."
"Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ['Paper boats forever']"
"A song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it."
"All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below."
Explore more quotes by A. A. Milne
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
"What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being."
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