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1. "Our memory and our identity are ever at odds."
Ralph Ellison
Edmund Spenser, "The Shepherd's Calendar"
Other categories: Talent and Genius
Francis Bacon
4. "Never lend money. It causes amnesia."
Other categories: Richness and Money
5. "Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
Other categories: Happiness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
Anita Brookner, "Look at Me"
Other categories: Art and Culture
7. "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso
Other categories: Art and Culture
8. "Always tell the truth; then you won't have to remember anything else."
Mark Twain
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
Albert Pike
Other categories: Egoism -:- Life and Death
Samuel Johnson
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
11. "We do not remember days; we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand Diaries: 1935-1950"
12. "He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
13. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
James M. Barrie
Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "De l'Amour"
Other categories: Love
15. "You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."
Agnieszka Lisak
Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Youth and Age
16. "Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Other categories: Forgiveness -:- Good and Evil
17. "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
Laurence J. Peter
Other categories: Various
18. "I want to live in the words I throw away so someone may trip and find me someday."
Ros Gelderman
Other categories: Oration and Silence -:- Various
19. "We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us."
David Seamans
20. "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
Willa Cather
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
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21. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
Other categories: Power and Weakness
Ogden Nash
Other categories: Youth and Age
23. "A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. "
Alexander Smith, "Dreamthorp: Essays Written In The Country"
Other categories: Richness and Money
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
25. "One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence."
Ogden Nash, "A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
Jon Wynne-Tyson, "Food for a Future"
27. "There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness."
Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy"
Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia
28. "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
Iris Murdoch, "A Severed Head"
Other categories: Love
29. "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
Doug Larson
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
30. "All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."
Shirley Abbott
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
31. "The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
Cesare Pavese, "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"
Other categories: Life and Death
32. "Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses."
Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound"
Other categories: Art and Culture
33. "I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception."
Groucho Marx
Marguerite Yourcenar, "Memoirs of Hadrian"
35. "Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Lydia Maria Child
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
36. "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B. F. Skinner
Other categories: Education
37. "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."
Evan Esar
Other categories: Various
38. "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
Albert Schweitzer
Other categories: Happiness
39. "I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness."
Jorge Luis Borges
Other categories: Forgiveness
40. "He is dead... because we have forgotten him."
Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game"
Other categories: Life and Death
41. "The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory."
George Savile
42. "Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
George Savile
43. "There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering - and even more difficult."
44. "Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother."
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
45. "Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Other categories: Love
Charles Swindoll
Other categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age
47. "The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget."
John Morley
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
Other categories: History and Nations
Nicholas Sperling
50. "Women and elephants never forget an injury."
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
Other categories: Woman and Man