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These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

People don’t remember. Revenge is sweet.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.