Quotes about Recollection

People don't remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

These scenes, by the way, are not altogether a literary device - a means of summing up and making a knot of innumerable little threads. Innumerable threads were there; still, if I stopped to disentangle, I could collect a number. But whatever the reason may be, I find that scene making is my natural way of marking the past.

Keep my memory green.

The beer has reminded me that I forgot.

The beer has reminded me that I forgot.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.