Quotes About Memory

He looks around, he suddenly recognizes in his colleagues what others see in him: tax officials. And he is one of them. How could it have happened that he became a tax official? On the computer he looks at pictures from his school days. Back then he wasn't a tax official yet.

A chi gli chiedeva reminiscenze della sua gioventù, il professore rispondeva che non può esserci niente del genere e che i ricordi, a differenza delle calcografie e delle lettere, non riportano una data. Le cose si conservano nella memoria e solo con la riflessione una persona riesce a sistemarle in un ordine temporale.

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

memory's malfunctions can be divided into seven fundamental transgressions or "sins," which I call transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.

He had managed to lock away everything he didn't want to remember... and the memories returned as well.

To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be. The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.

Because we tend to remember the best of times and the worst of times instead of the most likely of times, the wealth of experience that young people admire does not always pay clear dividends.

Memory uses the filling-in trick, but imagination is the filling-in trick

memory does not store a feature-length film of our experience but instead stores an idiosyncratic synopsis

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever.

To be alive is to have a story to tell.

Choline, an amino acid often prescribed for poor memory, absent-mindedness, and other cerebral inneficiencies associated with senility, is therapeutically impotent unless taken in conjunction with a large dose of vitamin B5. Choline is the basic building block the brain uses to produce the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, deficiencies of which are associated with symptoms of senility, but without the synergistic presence of vitamin B5, the brain cannot convert choline into acetylcholine.

Café ? Le bureau du divisionnaire Coudrier est un vieux souvenir qui n'a pas changé.

Et par dessus tout nous lisons contre la mort

It was stolen from the Jews on the way to the gas chambers, and I want it back.

We mourn the dead and keep them in our hearts. But we live our lives.

back to the place where this all started." "Bandit Country?" "Jimmy Fagan's farm, to be precise.

Computer files are a bit like sin, Excellency. They can be absolved, but they never really go away. - Gabriel Allon

face she could scarcely recall, the alcoholic brother who'd never worked a day in his life—but everything

Invent a past for the present.