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"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
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"Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them."

"I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house."

"The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever."

"A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it."

"And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long."

"My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere."

"My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive."

"I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be."
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