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Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view. — Dr. Hannibal Lecter · 1991I can't remember to forget you. — Leonard · 2000No, no, really! Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memory. That's how you investigate. I know. It's what I used to do. Look, memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation. They're not a record. They're irrelevant if you have the facts. — Leonard · 2000Thriller (film)3 quotes
Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view. — Dr. Hannibal Lecter · 1991I can't remember to forget you. — Leonard · 2000No, no, really! Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memory. That's how you investigate. I know. It's what I used to do. Look, memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation. They're not a record. They're irrelevant if you have the facts. — Leonard · 2000Modernist literature2 quotes
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or reverie, he had heard their tale before. — James Joyce · 1915Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater. — Marcel Proust · 1913Neo-noir2 quotes
I can't remember to forget you. — Leonard · 2000No, no, really! Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memory. That's how you investigate. I know. It's what I used to do. Look, memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation. They're not a record. They're irrelevant if you have the facts. — Leonard · 2000Autobiography and memoir1 quote
Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. — Joan Didion · 2011Drama1 quote
I can remember absolutely everything, young man, that's my curse. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. — Jedediah Leland · 1941Drama (film)1 quote
I can remember absolutely everything, young man, that's my curse. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. — Jedediah Leland · 1941Horror1 quote
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. — Chuck Palahniuk · 2003Philosophical literature1 quote
I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax, which is of different sizes in different men; harder, moister, and having more or less of purity in one than another, and in some of an intermediate quality... Let us say that this tablet is a gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses; and that when we wish to remember anything which we have seen, or heard, or thought in our own minds, we hold the wax to the perceptions and thoughts, and in that material receive the impression of them as from the seal of a ring; and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget and do not know. — Socrates · 369 BCPsychological horror1 quote
Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view. — Dr. Hannibal Lecter · 1991Psychological horror (film)1 quote
Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view. — Dr. Hannibal Lecter · 1991Satire1 quote
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. — Chuck Palahniuk · 2003Scientific literature1 quote
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. — Gerald M. Edelman · 2000