Quotes About Memory

But, as the saying had it, old professors never die, they merely lose their faculties.

Someone once said that all autobiography is a form of revenge. It can also be a form of thank-you letter.

The land claims what you leave behind.

For them, ten years ago, that's another lifetime. For you, it's yesterday.

We all become history at some point, right?

The last chapter discussed why we see time go forward: why disorder increases and why we remember the past but not the future.

Why do we remember the past but not the future? The

you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. However, while you have been reading the book, you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy, in the form of food, into disordered energy, in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat.

It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we don't know how the brain works in detail. We do, however, know all about how computer memories work.

Even worse, if determinism breaks down, we can't be sure of our past history either. The history books and our memories could just be illusions. It is the past that tells us who we are. Without it, we lose our identity.

El pasado nos dice quién somos; sin él, perdemos nuestra identidad.

Ne olduÄŸumuzu geçmiÅŸimiz söyler; o olmadan kimliÄŸimizi kaybederiz.

Time's the thief of memory

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?

The past is obdurate.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.