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The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says,...

Quotes by Theodor Reik

An angel has no memory.

Quotes by Terry Southern

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and...

Quotes by Terry Gross

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Quotes by Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Quotes by Tennessee Williams

One of the coolest days of my life was when I bought a 16K memory card upgrade and stuck it in my Apple II. I was kind of a geek.

Quotes by Ted Lieu

Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a...

Quotes by Ted Chiang

I think my best memory was taking my baby sisters trick-or-treating for the first time.

Quotes by Taylor Louderman

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

Quotes by Tao Lin

I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and just getting to the story.

Quotes by Tara Westover

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory.

Quotes by Tanushree Dutta

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of...

Quotes by T. E. Lawrence

Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and...

Quotes by Susannah Cahalan

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I was at my sickest, I couldn't read or write. I could barely walk on my own...

Quotes by Susannah Cahalan

The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

Quotes by Susan Stewart

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and...

Quotes by Susan Collins

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

Quotes by Studs Terkel

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Is there a quote about a troubling political administration?
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Is there a quote personifying nature as having a memory?
Yes - one describes nature almost as a participant in human affairs: "Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." Our Great quotes have more big-picture reflections like this.
Is there a quote defining what literature really is?
Yes, put very simply: "Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory." Our Life quotes explore more on what shapes how we understand our own experiences.
Do more than one of these quotes repeat the same idea?
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Where can I find more quotes about looking back on the past?
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