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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. -- W. Somerset Maugham
We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us. -- Joshua Foer
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. -- David Rakoff
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. Afterward, we withdrew from one another and tried our best to strike the event from our memories. -- Koren Zailckas
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. -- Ellen Hopkins

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