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“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

“My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.”

Want Children Ends Shows Bigs Song Girl Actors Memories Stage Dad Terrible Directors Singing West My Dad Folks Show Me Auditions Donkey Queues Child Actors Folk Songs West End

Author:Emilia Clarke

“In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!”

Remember Memories Nice Terrible Australia Friendly Surroundings Looking Forward New Zealand Australia And New Zealand

Author:Ellie Goulding

“I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.”

Memories Forget Terrible Never Forget Oxymoron Funny Oxymoron

Book:Allegra Maud Goldman

Source: Allegra Maud Goldman

“There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.”

“We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.”

Way Life Littles Moments Memories Our Lives Terrible Mere Terror Screens Nostalgia Suspense Continuity Melodrama

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

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

“Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.”

Form Memories Behinds Terrible All Things Assuming Clouds Familiar Tragic Stale

Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.”

“Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.”

Men Done Seems House Memories Enemy Forever Greater He Man Terrible Hatred Injustice Injury Guests Persistent Deathless

Book:The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic

Source: The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic

“I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.”

I Can Self Remember Names Memories Terrible Self Centered

Author:Jim Shaw

“Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.”

Care Memories Youth Months Periods Terrible Frightening Locks Cant Traumatic Experiences

Author:Laura Dekker

“If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.”

Ifs Book Asks House Memories Wife Terrible Faults My Wife Inability Saying No Handy

Author:Hugh Jackman