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Memory is imagination pinned down.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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Memory, the warder of the brain.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Lady Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 1, sc. 7, l. 65.
"Warder" means watchman.)
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On the stem
Of memory imaginations blossom.
(Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Father Mat (l. 79-80). . .
Anthology of Irish Literature, An. David H. Greene, ed. (1954) The Modern Library.)
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Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses.
(Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Prometheus Bound, l. 461.)
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An angel has no memory.
(Terry Southern (b. 1924), U.S. screenwriter, and Roger Vadim. Pygar (John Philip Law), Barbarella, as he rescues both Barbarella and the evil Black Queen—the film's final line (1968).
Film is based on the comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest.)
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... memory is the only way home.
(Terry Tempest Williams, U.S. author. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 10, by Mickey Pearlman (1993).)
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Bitter memory like vomit
Choked my throat.
(Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. An Autumn Morning in Shokoku-ji (l. 3-4). . .
No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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The selective memory isn't selective enough.
(Blake Morrison (b. 1950), British poet, critic. Independent on Sunday (London, June 16, 1991).)
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