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Quote on a picture of Mud Bay Park, Surrey, B.C., Canada.

“Memory is so much better at unhappiness than happiness.” — Jane Miller, Crazy Age

Author YahooeyPosted on June 2, 2023May 29, 2023Categories QuotationsTags Jane Miller, memoryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote with a portrait picture of Cormac McCarthy.

“Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.” — Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Author YahooeyPosted on April 2, 2023March 31, 2023Categories QuotationsTags Cormac McCarthy, memory, recall, rememberingLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote with a picture of Harold Pinter in 1962.

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.” — Harold Pinter, Old Times

Author YahooeyPosted on March 14, 2023March 15, 2023Categories QuotationsTags Harold Pinter, memory2 Comments on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote with a picture of Jamaica Kincaid at the Göteborg Book Fair in September 02019.

“Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.” — Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother

Author YahooeyPosted on October 1, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Jamaica Kincaid, memoryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote with a picture of Tennessee Williams.

“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.” — Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

Author YahooeyPosted on March 26, 2022March 21, 2022Categories QuotationsTags memory, present moment, Tennessee WilliamsLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote with a picture of Kurt Vonnegut.

“Anything I remember about that day other people have helped me to remember.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat’s Cradle

Author YahooeyPosted on December 1, 2021November 29, 2021Categories QuotationsTags Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., memory, remembering2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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Quote on a blurred picture of a spinning ballet dancer.

“Memory is imagination pinned down.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)

Author YahooeyPosted on November 1, 2021October 31, 2021Categories QuotationsTags Mason Cooley, memoryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Author YahooeyPosted on January 10, 2021December 25, 2020Categories QuotationsTags Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, memory, vanityLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.” — Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

Author YahooeyPosted on December 19, 2020December 6, 2020Categories QuotationsTags An Unnecessary Woman, desire, memory, Rabih AlameddineLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.

“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.” — Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Arrow of Gold

Author YahooeyPosted on July 19, 2020July 15, 2020Categories QuotationsTags Joseph Conrad, memoryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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