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«You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
| Keywords:
anatomies, anatomy, deduction, deductions, details, erasing, execution, fill in, left brain, liking, recall, silhouette, silhouettes, splurge, stopping, substantive
«Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.»
Author: Gary Ryan Blair
| About:
Achievement,
Dreams,
Memory,
Mind
| Keywords:
achieving, blessed with, clarity, cursed, cursed with, documented, documenting, documents, lousy, recall
«Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!»
«You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.»
Author: Lewis B. Smedes
| About:
Forgiveness
| Keywords:
begun, forgiveness, hurt, power, recall, recalling, recalls, The Power, well, wish
«When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.»
«What was hard to endure is sweet to recall»
«Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Autobiography,
Literature
| Keywords:
autobiographies, recall
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