"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."

Memory, Memories

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"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."

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"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."

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