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memories book writing
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them Charles Caleb Colton
memories appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
memories mind firsts
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
memories green lord
Lord, keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
memories husband men
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
memories liberty might
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
hanging-on toenails establishment
Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment. Dennis Hopper
hanging-on taste pleasure
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future. Charles Baudelaire
hanging-on passing passings
I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day. Becca Fitzpatrick
hanging-on life-is dear-life
Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life. Logan Lerman
hanging-on moments
This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away. Janet Fitch
hanging-on way quiet
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. Roger Waters
hanging-on stuff comfort
I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone. Robert Plant
hanging-on
Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.