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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

—William Shakespeare

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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

—William Shakespeare

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

—William Shakespeare

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many things I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

—Unknown

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.

—Unknown

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I'd never get over you regardless of what happened to you. You're not something I want to get over no matter where I am in my life.

—Holly Hood in Perfectly Hopeless

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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

—Toni Morrison

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

—William Lyon Phelps

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Lately I've been thinking it would have been better to have just been by myself. That way, at least all of high school wouldn't be tinged with his memory.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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It's a moment I'll remember forever, because it belongs to me.

— Jessica Sorensen in The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

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Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

—P. G. Wodehouse

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Sometimes it's better not to look back.

—Ransom Riggs in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

—Kin Hubbard

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A piece of me is gone. I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

—Melina Marchetta in Saving Francesca

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