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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 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 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.
memories heart passion
Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control! Charles Spurgeon
memories past reality
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. Alan Watts
memories dark childhood
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten. Alan Moore
albums reunion plans
There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing. Dee Snider
albums american-musician bury record
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them. Les Baxter
albums audiences band chicago good grown older original phases result scattered version
We have as many audiences as we have phases of our career. And all of us are older now. We've grown in different directions, so that the result is a band that's sometimes a little scattered -- just like it was with the original version of the band, really. ... All Chicago albums are stylistically all over the map, and that's a good thing. We can play to anyone. Robert Lamm
albums three enough
When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough. Agnetha Faltskog
albums study excitement
And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums. Bruno Schulz
albums whole-life new-music
I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life. Bobby Moynihan
albums feels
It feels great to have a #1 album. Billy Joel
albums award band celebrate ceremony diamond fitting good honored performing received rock seems together
We're honored to be performing with a band that received their Diamond Award (given for 10,000,000 albums sold) at the same ceremony when we received our Diamond Award. So it seems fitting that we go out together after all these years and celebrate a lot of good years of rock and roll. Jonathan Cain
albums art aware blend good
We're aware that we have to be marketable, because at the end of the day, it's about making money, ... So we try to make our albums a good blend of art and commercialism. Wayne Coyne
snapshots lessons might
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets. Alastair Reynolds
snapshots pieces shapes
When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances. Rudolf Arnheim
snapshots one-true-love
Every life has one true love snapshot. Mitch Albom
snapshots cameras idiot
I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras. Terry Richardson
snapshots records where-you-are
A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time. Norah Jones
snapshots achieve states
Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture. Gerhard Richter
snapshots sample ifs
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. Nate Silver
snapshots want tourettes
I don’t want to be myself, ever. I’m terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I’ve got facial Tourette’s. Unless I’m working and in that zone, I’m not very good at pictures, really, Kate Moss