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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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"If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!"
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"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."
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"The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging to the frail hope that these memories of mine were nothing but a dream or a delusion. I have struggled to convince myself that they never happened. But each time I tried to push them into the dark, they came back stronger and more vivid than ever. Like cancer cells, these memories have taken root in my mind and eaten into my flesh."
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"As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him from long ago, that tall, stately gentleman in the swirling black cape, with his head thrown back, his rich, flawless voice singing the lilting air of the opera from which we'd only just come, his walking stick tapping the cobblestones in time with the music, his large, sparkling eye catching the young woman who stood by, enrapt, so that a smile spread over his face as the song died on his lips; and for one moment, that one moment when his eye met hers, all evil seemed obliterated in that flush of pleasure, that passion for merely being alive."
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"My memories always clutch my brain to understand the past."
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"In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody's memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory, some memories are lost by the passage of time, psychological defense mechanisms screen other memories from detection, the ephemeral character of other memories are invariably to elusive to arrest with reciprocal language."
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"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."
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"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."
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"Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on."
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".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
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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."
Memory
"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
Church
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
Music
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
Artist
"I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting."
Music
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
Mother
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
Singing
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
Musicians
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
African
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
Thought
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