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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."
"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."
"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."
"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."
"Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."
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