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Kevin J. Anderson

"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"

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"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"

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"'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone."

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"...many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of his life. We could watch him in his rocking chair on his front porch, his eyes squinted, half-closed, endlessly traveling to Honolulu."

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"If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains."

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"I remembered his laugh, like a flock of crows taking off."

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"Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do."

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"I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain."

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"The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea."

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"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

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"Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legsand arms used to be. That's how his mindfelt-like his missing memories were aching."

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Amber Hurdle

"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

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