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"It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present."

"That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was..."

"The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind."

"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."

"A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to anyone expect the holder of the memory. Parenting in large part consists of cr..."

"Without the mellifluous notes of memory, there would be no songs to sing, no ballads dedicated to past afflictions or affections, and no church hymns celebrating the trials and tribulations of saints,..."

"Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love."

"There can be no intellectual, spiritual, or emotional life without the substratum of memory. Without cognition and awareness of beauty and appreciation of our limited time on planet Earth, humankind’s..."

"In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody’s memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory,..."

"Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal."