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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The past is always with us, like a long shadow.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.