One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
Rebecca West

You never know when you're making a memory.
Rickie Lee Jones

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
Charlie Kaufman

I think all writing is done through memory.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
Augusto Roa Bastos

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.
Cesar Romero

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Alfred de Vigny

Your body has such a memory.
Kristanna Loken

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam

A good memory is needed after one has lied.
Pierre Corneille

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
Pierre Corneille

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Pierre Corneille

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
Paul Nurse

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
Stanislav Grof

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
Jean Paul

Language is memory and metaphor.
Storm Jameson

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
William Godwin

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
Rick Moody