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"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"
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"I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared."
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"Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right."
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"This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of 'memory, ' not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing."
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"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."
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"Now, now. I placed a hand on his back. 'Jealousy colors you black, Geoff. If you wanted to be a pretty princess too, I would have bought you a crown. I'll be back soon."
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"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."
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"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."
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"Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it."
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"The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met."
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"The president of General Motors was in a foul humor."
Humor
"Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish."
Memory
"I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life."
Life
"When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before."
Travel
"I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning."
Education
"I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words."
Writing
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