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“The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.”

People Stills War Certain Memories Flow Scales Manage Nasty Ambiguous Puddles

Author:Mark Kingwell

“A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.”

Source: Essays and Reviews

“The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.”

May Mean Long Moments Fall Hours Memories Flow Endure Instant Streams Passages Abyss Oblivion Confined Indestructible No Memory

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.”

Thinking Memories Flow Tricky Very Deep

Author:Brian Greene

“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.”

May Littles Feelings Body Remember Water Memories Flow Filled Fingers Bones Flesh Cells Streams Touched Joints Sponges

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest-- Then why should my soul be so sad? I know thou art gone where the weary are blest, And the mourner looks up, and is glad; I know thou hast drank of the Lethe that flows In a land where they do not forget, That sheds over memory only repose, And takes from it only regret.”

Knows Should Looks Art Soul Home Death Memories Forget Gone Land Regret Flow Glad My Soul Look Up Shed Weary Drank Repose So Sad Lethe

Author:Thomas Kibble Hervey

“Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.”

Problem Remember Memories Flow Veins Blood Flow

Author:Tobias Wolff

“People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.”

People Thinking Way Life Wells Doe Book Use Order Understanding Growth Differences Memories Essentials Flow Personal Growth Investing Breathe Instruction Subconscious Skis Skiers Book Learning

Author:Ray Dalio

“The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.”

Pain Memories Loss Emotion Acceptance Flow Currents Active Disaster Over It Haunting Agonizing

Author:Elizabeth Drew

“But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.”

Night Loses Memories Sea Sadness Return Sad Ambition Flow Delight Hungry Bitter Heels Gloom Withered

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.”