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

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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. – Carol Shields

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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. – Author Unknown

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