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“Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?”

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.”

Littles Use Age Faces Night Left Memories Blood Mines Ears Winter Snow Dull Lamps Deaf Consuming Fading Sap Deaf Ears

Book:The Comedy of Errors

Source: The Comedy of Errors

“An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.”

Memories Pleasure Animal Levels Sun Blood Taste Draws Cruelty Instant Leap Prey Marrow

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.”

War Memories Air Blood Poison

Book:A Long Long Way

Source: A Long Long Way

“My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.”

People Way Language Memories Blood Historical Obsession Empires Rooted Colonialism Enslavement Iconography Disenfranchisement

Author:Natasha Trethewey

“Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.”

May Memories Blood Lovers Lows Comes And Goes

Author:Hilda Doolittle

“When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory...The wilderness will take hold of you. It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into a man...You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.”

Men Giving Soul Light Faces Turns Passion Memories Cities Blood Civilization Red Peaceful Dull Wilderness Routine Fierce Peril Marketplace Envious

Author:Estwick Evans

“I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory”

Thinking Knows Past Strong Memories Common Blood Expression Genius Lovely Golden Retrievers Golden Retrievers

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood”

Long Memories Blood Shadow Lays Landscape Grandmother Immense Interiors My Grandmother Long Life Rainy Continental

Book:The Way to Rainy Mountain

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.”

Years Memories Acting Careers Blood Understood Hollywood Agents Persistent

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.”

Believe I Believe Memories Blood Ancient I Believe In

Author:Nina Simone

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”

Language Memories Blood Linked Ancestry

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!”

“Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.”

Desire Memories Fiction Written Blood Mythology Branches Nerves Vessel Scenarios Neurology Blood Vessels

Author:J. G. Ballard

“People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer to heal. A wounded heart is nothing but ashes of memories. But the body is everything. The body is blood and veins and cells and nerves. A wounded body is when, after leaving a man you’ve lived with for three years, you curl up on your side of the bed as if there’s still somebody beside you. That is a wounded body: a body that feels connected to someone who is no longer there.”