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I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother’s bureau. I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and some of these memories are full of details and very colorful. Some of them you just see the action and it's completely blank.