As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America…."
Memory Quotes
Memory has a small number of very good, well-sourced lines. Oscar Wilde, in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), calls it the diary we all carry about with us. William James, in The Principles of Psychology (1890), says that forgetting is as important a function of the intellect as recollecting. Ray Bradbury, in Long After Midnight (1976), says that God gives us dreadful gifts and the most dreadful is memory.
The flagged lines are the kind that circulate on social media. “Remember me with smiles and laughter” is credited to Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory” to Dr. Seuss, and a line about the sap in the trees carrying the memory of the red man to Chief Seattle. All three are marked misattributed.
The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.
Together; we would create some ecstatic memories, but you are either busy or sleepy.
She was reaching for supernatural answers when memory and mundanity were enough.
"Memory is not only about the past; it is a responsibility toward the future."
Art is my own way of capturing a memory, fixing it, or, let's say, reviving a memory.
When two spirits recognize each other in memory and future, then love grows.