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    Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
    â€” O SCAR W ILDE
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    Count reminiscences like money
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    â€” C ARL S ANDBURG
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    It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
    â€” B ARBARA K INGSOLVER
    Animal Dreams
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    We do not remember days; we remember moments.
    â€” C ESARE P AVESE
    The Burning Brand
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    The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever.
    â€” B UD M EYER
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    Don’t brood on what’s past, but never forget it either.
    â€” T HOMAS H . R ADDALL
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    Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.
    â€” L IBBIE F UDIM
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    Each of us is the accumulation of our memories.
    â€” A LAN L OY M C G INNIS
    The Romance Factor
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    One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
    â€” P HYLLIS R OSE
    in
Hers: Through Women’s Eyes
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    Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
    â€” C ORRIE TEN B OOM WITH J OHN AND E LIZABETH S HERRILL
    The Hiding Place
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    May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
    â€” Quoted by P AUL D ICKSON in
Toasts
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    Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?
    â€” A SHLEIGH B RILLIANT
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    To live without a memory is to live alone.
    â€” G ILLES M ARCOTTE
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    There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
    â€” R ICHARD L LEWELLYN
    How Green Was My Valley
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    Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
    â€” S AUL B ELLOW
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    Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
    â€” C HARLES R . S WINDOLL
    The Strong Family
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    You never know when you’re making a memory.
    â€” R ICKIE L EE J ONES
    â€œYoung Blood”
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    Our memories are card indexes—consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control.
    â€” C YRIL C ONNOLLY
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    What is memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.
    â€” S TANLEY K AUFFMANN
    The New Republic
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    Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
    â€” P IERCE H ARRIS
    Atlanta Journal
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    I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
    â€” D IANE S AWYER
    in
TV Guide
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    When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
    â€” M ARK T WAIN
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    You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
    â€” S TANISLAW J . L EC
    Unkempt Thoughts
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    There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering—and even more difficult.
    â€” H ARRY AND J OAN M IER
    Happiness Begins Before Breakfast
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    Remembering is a dream that comes in waves.
    â€” H ELGA S ANDBUR
    â€œ. . . Where Love Begins”
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    Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
    â€” B ARBARA K INGSOLVER
    Animal Dreams
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    Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
    â€” J EAN P AUL R ICHTER
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    The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living.
    â€” J EAN C OCTEAU
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    There is something terrible yet soothing about returning to a place where you once lived. You are one of your own memories.
    â€” M ARY M ORRIS
    Crossroads
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    Some folks never exaggerate—they just remember big.
    â€” A UDREY S NEAD
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    The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
    â€”
Commercial Appeal
(Danville, Virginia)
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    God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
    â€” J AMES M . B ARRIE
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    No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their