Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choos

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Hmmm, how to “can a day?” You know, those days that seem just perfect you want access to them whenever the need arises. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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Never forget what you need to remember. – Garrett Bartley

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