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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.
farewell heart mind
And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence. William Shakespeare
farewell hello
Farewell, hello, farewell, hello. Kurt Vonnegut
farewell adventure men
When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties! C. S. Lewis
farewell night perfect
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. Charles Tennyson Turner
farewell humorous gone
He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors Benjamin Franklin
farewell thinking brain
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought. Arthur Bryant
farewell greatness long
Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!
farewell good-luck luck
Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
farewell frost killing
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
bereavement imagine loved-ones
If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it. Daniel Handler
bereavement amputation beloved
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
bereavement grief-observed pain-of-separation
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
bereavement matter serious
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. Anne Fadiman
bereavement affliction might
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. Emily Dickinson
bereavement trying mystery-of-death
The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious. Francine Prose
bereavement want goes-on
I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on Kay Redfield Jamison
bereavement age unjust
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board. William Boyd
bereavement moments eternity
It was the meanest moment of eternity. Zora Neale Hurston