In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty..

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things..

When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, ….

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones..

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the….

Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding….

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, ….

Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s home, t….

Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, a….

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me..

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bod….

It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the ….

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory,….

I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many people would change after a nom….

My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fi….

As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful..

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory..

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my ….

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's lik….

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness..