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“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.”

Home School Three Strong Parent Memories Morning Wonderful Influence High School My Family Twenties Clock Afternoon Milk Cows Every Morning Barns Wonderful Memories

Author:Billy Graham

“I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?”

Writing Years Important Past Remember Memories Roots Twenties Foreigners Why Me

Author:Isabel Allende

“When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose.”

Ifs Years Looks Moments Form Memories Information Exciting Twenties Preservation

Author:Reggie Watts

“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.”

Years Mind Ideas Reality Happens Courses Wish Realizing Loses Memories Influence Taste Illusion Twenties Likes Dislike Crowded Of My Mind Year One Likes And Dislikes

Author:Willa Cather

“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”

Joy Passion Memories Too Much Failing Youth Beats Twenties Senses Temptation Yield Get Back Limbs Pulse Exquisite Hideous Puppets Degenerates Sluggish

Book:Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Picture of Dorian Gray

“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”

Years Stills Two Might Nations Memories Race Class Happened Thousand Ten Years Ago Twenties Obligation Nonsense Thousand Years Absurdity No Memory

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.”

Ifs Might Remember Purpose Strong Memories Twenties Aim Uncertainty Confused Uncertain Patches Short Life Entirety Overlapping Backtracking

Author:Julian Barnes

“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.”

Years Firsts Looks May Long Has Beens Seems Happiness Memories Rooms Half Succeed Twenties Passing Passings Our Memories

Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”

Way Years Made Two Facts Together Form Difficult Realizing Memories Party Our Lives Adventure Years Ago Army Twenties Thirty Two Years Episodes Obscure Our Memories Thirty Years Lumps

Author:Vaclav Havel

“'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'”

Source: Old Man’s Boy Grows Up