Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which ….

When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how ….

When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be face….

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at ….

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done.….

Creditors have better memories than debtors..

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality..

No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, it's cities and towers and ch….

[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience o….

Probably my first memory of theatre, the first one I guess that had an impact on me was when I saw my very first panto with my Primary School. I thin….

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling..

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ep….

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory..

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the ….

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge..

What's interesting is when you talk about that - "living forever" or as long as you possibly can - what you really want is a continuance of your memo….

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old..

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory..

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished..

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!.

To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory ride….