"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."

-- W. G. Sebald

#Memories Quotes #Happy Life Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.”
“Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.”
“A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy”

Source : Robert Dole's Speech To The Republican National Convention in San Diego, California, edition.cnn.com. August 15, 1996.
“Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.”

Source : "Atom and Archetype" edited by Carl Alfred Meier, translated by David Roscoe, 1992.
“Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.”
“The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.”
“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

Source : Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press
“I love the sound of a brand-new bottle of coke when you pry the lid off and it starts to fizz. Whenever I hear that sound, I think of roses, and of sitting together with someone you care about and of Romeo and Juliet waking up somewhere and saying to each other, weren't we jerks? And then having all that be over. That's what I think of when I hear the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke being opened”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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