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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. -- Jean Paul
Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention -- Wallace Stegner
I have always been honest about my recollection of events. -- David Blunkett
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. -- Plato
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. -- Peter L. Berger
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. -- George Bernard Shaw
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. -- Washington Irving
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. -- Stendhal
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. -- John Philip Sousa
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. -- Andre Maurois
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. -- William Bartram
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. -- Hamlin Garland
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. -- Hoagy Carmichael
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? -- Cesare Pavese
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. -- Jack Kerouac
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. -- Oscar Wilde
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat -- Clifton Fadiman
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life. -- Martial
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. -- Samuel Johnson
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. -- Elbert Hubbard
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. -- Samuel Johnson
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. -- Oscar Wilde
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. -- James Laughlin
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger. -- Publilius Syrus
My first recollection is that of a bugle call. -- Douglas MacArthur
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. -- John Strachan
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work. -- Peter Higgs
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. -- Jesse Jackson
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything. -- Barbra Streisand
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. -- Orson Welles
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements. -- Dweezil Zappa
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Immortality is the best recollection one leaves. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I want to produce images that startle one into recollection. -- John Baldessari
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. -- Ilka Chase
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct. -- Marcus Aurelius
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. -- Terry Pratchett
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret. -- Jane Austen
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. -- Theodor Adorno
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since -- Josephine Hart
The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. -- Francis of Paola
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. -- Agnes Repplier
The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history. -- John Andrew Rice
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart"?never the sensation of the moment. -- Roger Zelazny
To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember -- Jimmy Hoffa
The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth. -- Arsene Houssaye
You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really. -- Pete Doherty
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed. -- James E. Talmage
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. -- Samuel Woodworth
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones -- Cassandra Clare
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language. -- James Mackintosh
Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.... -- Allen Tate
Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance. -- Arnold Gingrich
There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove. -- Miguel
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it. -- Rashida Jones
The morningâ??s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come. -- David Markson
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. -- Robert Breault
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip. -- Noam Chomsky
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past. -- E. V. Lucas
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence. -- Alphonsus Liguori
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school. -- Joe Biden
Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is no return. -- Henry Abbey
Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind... -- Walter Russell
I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law. -- Lord Byron
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure. -- James Gates Percival
Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream. -- Walter Scott
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others. -- Lord Chesterfield
From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church. -- Teddy Pendergrass
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. -- Washington Irving
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing "? or one person "? at a time. -- Maureen Dowd
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. -- William Cowper
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! -- Vladimir Nabokov
Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed. -- Cassandra Clare
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee. -- David Cassidy
We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. -- Oliver Sacks
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing. -- Maria Edgeworth
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel. -- C. M. Mayo
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly. -- Anthony Trollope
The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides. -- John James Audubon
You'll spend every Saturday night on the bathroom floor with no recollection of the night before You're a train wreck and everything that's in between Being alone doesn't seem so bad to me -- Real Friends
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. -- Benjamin Franklin
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew. -- Samuel Woodworth
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic. -- Janice Erlbaum
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand. -- Madeline Tiger Bass
I have no remorse. As to whether recollection of my deeds makes me feel ashamed, I will tell you. Thinking back to all the details is not at all unpleasant. I rather enjoy it. -- Peter Kurten
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family. -- George Edward Woodberry
Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it.Forever. -- Simone Elkeles
To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner

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