Speak, Memory is strictly autobiographic. There is nothing autobiographic in Lolita. - Vladimir Nabokov Monstrously Remote: "Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I immediately draw radii from my lovefrom my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matterto monstrously remote points of the universe... the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time." Speak Memory (1966) - Vladimir Nabokov

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. - Richard Paul Evans I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. - Terry Gross Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all. - C S Lewis Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action. - Ja...

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film. - Steven Wright Alfonse invested everything he did with a sense of all-consuming purpose. He knew four languages, had photographic memory, did complex mathematics in his head. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. - Don Delillo I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them. - Earl Hines I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice! - John C Mcginley

Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you. - Lauren Barnholdt He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. - Norton Juster A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of. - Kazuya Minekura

I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always. - Mark Twain But that age ... exerts on us An almost terrible charm, Like the memory of things seen And a life lived in dreams. - Heinrich Heine No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades. - J R R Tolkien ...the fragrance that came to each was like a memory of dewy mornings of unshadowed sun in some land of which the fair world in Spring is itself but a fleeting memory. - J R R Tolkien They walked as it were in a black vapour wrought of veritable darkness itself that, as it was...

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. - Jeffrey Bernard Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway. - Sloane Crosley I would take a trip down Memory Lane, but with gas prices sky high, forget about it. - Jarod Kintz

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. - Bob Dylan One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory. - Teresa R Funke ... That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back homesomeday, somehow. ... - Catherynne M Valente

It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right. - Meg Cabot Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death. - Julian Barnes The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. - Orson Scott Card Then I traveled. Quite a bit, in fact. You have to stockpile a few beautiful vistas in your memory, Pearlie. In case we're rationed again. - Andrew Sean Greer Grave this in your memory, lad. A world is supported by four things: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave. But all of the these are as nothing without a ...

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. - Quintus Tullius Cicero The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living. - Quintus Tullius Cicero It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. - Oscar Wilde Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. - Gyles Brandreth The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. - Marcus Tullius Cicero A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. - Benjamin Disraeli Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy splendid banner emblazoned be. Now to thy golden talons Homage we're...

...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom. - Diane Ackerman Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know. - J R R Tolkien Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know. - J R R Tolkien He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too. - Veronica Roth It's raining women's voices as if they had died even in memory, and it's raining you as well- Marvellous encounters of my life (o little drops!) -...

Books, too, begin like the week with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday. - Walter Benjamin The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flowersuitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died. - Katharine Hepburn You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie! - Gregory Maguire In memory of Robert Harris, sometime Major-General of His Majesty's forces before Plymouth, who was buried hereunder the 29th day of June 1655. And of Honor Harris his sister, who was likewise here underneath buried, the 17th day of November, in the yea...

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. - Thomas More The air was cold and wet, and if you stood still for a moment the chilling damp would creep into your bones. I could tell the temperature was taking a deep dive, and the bright sky of the morning was a fond memory. It was an appropriate day to dump a body. - Charlaine Harris Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will make me feel grateful. I say fear because at times I really don't want this to be a fond memory until it's over. I also fear that nothing really ends at the en. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter. - Markus Zusak