Gary Shteyngart Quotes

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

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

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

I have a very vivid memory.

To me, pictures are about memory.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.