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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It was as if some silver chime had waked a chord in his memory. – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. – P.D. James

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You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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