I can't help but alter things when I step inside - tracking mud on the floor, moving furniture out of alignment, kicking up swirls of dust. I imagine my recollections like rooms in a house. ~Max Nordau (1849–1923), 'The Art of Growing Old,' How Women Love and Other Tales (Soul Analysis), translated from the German by an unnamed translator, 1896 Įach time we remember something, we change it. These were the archives of the history of his own heart. ~ The Wonder Years, 'Christmas,' 1988, written by Bob Brush At first that was disappointing, until I learned that memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you wish to never lose.

~William Wordsworth, lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 1798 July 13thįor me, that year Christmas stopped being about tinsel and wrapping paper and started being about memory. Rather, memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them. Memory is more than a dustbin of time, stuffed with yesterday's trash. ~Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, Scene One, 1945 The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic. It omits some details others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. Think how determinedly it entwines itself around the past! ~Ronald A. Memory Quotes, Sayings about Memories The Quote Garden ™īut memory.

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