...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
Remembering doesn’t help the remembered. It is for the rest of us.
Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.
About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
Oblivion is not to be hired.
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
