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.
That's the most important (role) realistically and along the way obviously have some good memories.
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
Not an enforced amnesia but an unsparing memory - that is what will build a nation.
Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.
One of the techniques that I use to imitate psychic phenomena is photographic memory.
There's a place
between desire and memory, some back porch
we can neither wish nor recall