E. W. Howe Quotes

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

I've come to learn that you could read through one hundred things, ninety of them could be positive, those ten negative ones are the ones you're going to remember, that are going to stand out.

People forget years and remember moments.

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

People talk from memory and memory often plays false.

The mistakes you made you tend to conveniently forget

You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.

They always remember the last thing you do. They don't remember the things before.

People only remember what they want to remember.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Julie Christie was absolutely amazing in Away From Her. Brilliant movie. It was the moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband. Hillary Clinton calls it the feel good movie of the year.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.