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"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
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"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."
"Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me."
"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed."
"Things come into your memory even when you don't want them to, that is because 'pratikraman dosh' is pending (mistake for which pratikraman was not done yet)."
"Few things are more deceptive than memories."
"It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all."
"Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's."
"Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hated us for going traveling in the first place, even if they left us last June or died twelve and a half years ago, it is impossible not to experience a shiver of a sense that they may have come along anyway, just to surprise us and make us feel special (as someone must have done for us when we were small, if only occasionally, or we would never had the strength to make it this far)."
"But the windows of the house of Memory, and the windows of the house of Mercy, are not so easily closed as windows of glass and wood. They fly open unexpectedly; they rattle in the night; they must be nailed up. Mr. The Englishman had tried nailing them, but had not driven the nails quite home. So he passed but a disturbed evening and a worse night."
"He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended."
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"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
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