Every
man's memory is his private literature. -
Aldous Huxley
It's
surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed
at the time. - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
The
past is never dead, it is not even past. - William Faulkner
"When
an old person dies, a library burns." African proverb revived
by Malian writer Amadou Hampaté Ba
Memory
is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you
are, the things you never want to lose.- From the television
show The Wonder Years
We do
not remember days; we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese,
The Burning Brand
To speak
the name of the dead is to make them live again - Ancient Egyptian
Belief
WIthin
our hearts, the ones we love are never really gone - In spirit
and in memory, their legacy lives on. - Hallmark
All
those moments will be lost in time...like tears in rain. - The
Blade Runner
...She
cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou
love and she be fair! - John Keats, Ode on a Grecian
Urn
"You
and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out
ahead" - Lennon/McCartney, Two of Us, 1969
A story
is what holds us together, and what is left when we leave -
Marshall Dodge, The New Yorker, Oct 22, 1979
"The
backward look transforms its object...History cannot be touched
without changing it." Siegfried Giedion
"I like
the old days, but not all the days, only the good old days"
- Departure, The Long Winters
It was
no thought or word that called culture into being, but a tool
or a weapon. After the stone axe we needed song and story to
remember innocence, to record effect - and so to describe the
limits, to say what can be done without damage. Wendell
Berry, 1974
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