The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.
When your heart knows the truth, it never forgets.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remember
He could swear he did not look back, could not—by any optical chance, or in any prism—have seen her physically as he walked away; and yet, with dreadful distinction, he retained forever a composite pi...
It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death,...
That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...
Recollection could be more powerful and more perilous than experience itself.
He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see...
How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.
It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.
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