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- My memory of that day is like television itself, sharp and clear but unreliable.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
(William Golding, "Lord of the Flies")
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- It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.
(Wilson Rawls, "Where the Red Fern Grows")
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- What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
(Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried")
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- Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness.
(Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
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- Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it
(Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead")
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- Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
(Toni Morrison, "Beloved")
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- Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship's more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
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- This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
(Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose")
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- He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.
(Virginia Woolf, "Orlando")
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- He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
(Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse")
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- Being a murderer with a sensational but incomplete and unorthodox memory, I cannot tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the exact day which I first knew with certainty that the red convertible was following us.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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