#memory

"We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie."

"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."

"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."

"I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years."

"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."

"I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people."

"Few things are more deceptive than memories."

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

"We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss."

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"Be memorable. Say something unforgettable. Be silent."

"We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success."

"Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people."

"Trying to remember a dream from a decade ago is like trying to catch fog in a coffee filter. I could subsist on morning mist."

"When I die, remember to remove my body from the cooler before you start making the hunch punch. But by all means, do get drunk on my memory."

"when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world."

"The pink sunset reminds me of her, and the calm water matches the calm that images of her bring to my heart."

"Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?"

"Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are."

"Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before."