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“My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to listen to a message that the rest of the world, sobered by wars without end, can also understand: that war itself is the enemy of the human race.”

People World Humans War Ends States Able Memories United Race Enemy United States Messages Intense Human Race Disgrace

Book:A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

“Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent”

Mind Found Memories Powerful Strange Terrible Perception Instruments Conviction Intense Indian Continents Vengeance Yankees Mixtures Fanaticism Tenacity Bourbon

Book:The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

Source: The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.”

Memories Grief Objects Affection Delight Absence Impression Intense Poignant Widowed

Author:James Martineau

“Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.”

Lasts Term Memories Acting Trump Intense Bridges Concentration Contracts Short Term Short Term Memory

Author:Gore Vidal

“We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.”

World Art Book Sometimes Memories Adventure Offers Intense Alternatives Our Memories

Author:Anthony Doerr

“I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.”

Thinking Feelings Certain Memories Cry Come Up Intense Therapeutic

Author:Tig Notaro

“I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.”

Ifs Wells May Long Character Might Memories Cities Reader Circumstances Hundred Painful Intense Instance Excitement Remarkable Long Ago Baltimore

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.”

I Can Play School Used Games Memories Growing Up Too Much Growing Fronts Sitting Chess Intense Boards Ruined Tournaments

Author:Chris Hardwick