Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

I don't really remember a lot of my childhood.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

My memories of events and games are fragmented.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

I have very strong memories of my early years. In fact, I remember the house I was born in, and we moved from that house when I was less than ten months old. I have drawn pictures of it and shown my mother, and she was shocked because we have no photos of the place, and I was very accurate.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

People forget years and remember moments.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments - if I take a picture of it I can remember so many more details. I think it’s about choosing the exact picture in my head that signifies or symbolizes a moment - almost as if you’re using film. It’s almost archaic.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

I don't think I remember my first memory.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.