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The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Samuel Johnson

Art

Attention

Memory

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Samuel Johnson

Memory

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

Language is memory and metaphor.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

Janet Jackson

Memory

Pain

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory

Writing

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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!

I think all writing is done through memory.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Memory

Writing

To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.