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It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you’re in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder.

—Blakney Francis in Someone I Used to Know

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How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or given up without ever taking a chance, or settled in life because it’s easier, or they’re scared, or whatever other excuses? How many people need a reminder of who they once were?

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

—Burt Bacharach

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

—Robertson Davies

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I’m human and every human makes mistakes. It’s just up to the person who made that mistake to let it rule their lives or put it behind them and go on.

—Amanda Heath in This Beautiful Thing

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

—Charles Lindbergh

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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

—Alec Bourne

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

—Laurence J. Peter

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You are remembered for the rules you break.

—Douglas MacArthur

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Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory.

—Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement

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Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can’t remember? The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn’t bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

—Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

—Edwin P. Whipple

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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

—James Branch Cabell

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When I was a child, a volcano erupted unexpectedly in Iceland, burying a small town at the foot of its cone. All the children in the town were in school at the time, and they all perished. The parents sent their sons and daughters out the door that morning, same as they always did, and never saw them again. I remember my mother being profoundly moved by that tragedy. She always made sure that the last words we had in the morning were loving ones. That cannot always have been easy, but my memory is that she usually succeeded.

—Barbara Cawthorne Crafton

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We never remember what is important, only what matters to us.

—Suzanne Finnamore in Otherwise Engaged

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