Memory

“A mixture of memory, observation, and imagination finally make a poem what it is.”

““I’m not going to build a costly monument to my father. I’m going to make his name known round the world.””

“This is where we lived in, down Second Avenue — that’s the title of my autobiography, Down Second Avenue.”

“The whole past is a dream and a shadow!”

“Ca unul dintre actorii care am interpretat cele mai multe personaje (…) din opera marelui nostru dramaturg, îl evoc cu afectuoasă recunoştinţă.”

“Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction.”

“집에서 '타샤'라 불리다 윤미래라는 이름을 썼을 땐 뒤에서 누가 저를 불러도 알지 못했죠.”

“There is no problem of mind which is so provocative as that of memory.”

“I may say that it was there that I spent the happiest years of my infancy and of my early youth.”

“Once a memory has been implanted through suggestion, it can seem very, very real to the person.”

“« La mémoire, telle que le sens commun l’entend et que la psychologie ordinaire la décrit, loin d’être la mémoire tout entière, n’en est qu’un cas particulier, le plus élevé et le plus complexe. »”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“Gregorius Lopes, Episcopus Basilitanus et Vicarius Apostolicus Nankim, patri suo spirituali, restaurato sepulcro, lapidem hunc gratitudinis monumentum erexit.”

“the look something between fear and defiance which we have all seen so often, and which will always remain in my memory as typical of our gallant old cobbers 'the Diggers'”

“If only we could recapture those few seconds, it’d save all this argument and uncertainty, we’d know what it was.”

“You don’t forget those things, but that doesn’t mean you don’t make peace with your opponents either.”

“When you sit with your pen, every year of your life is right there, wired into the communication between your brain and your writing hand.”

“The relationship between memory and imagination is very mysterious.”