“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”
As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).
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Albert Finney6
English actor 1936–2019Related quotes
“Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
I.59
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Alfred Binet (1894). Psychologies des grands calculateurs et joueurs d’echecs. Paris: Hachette. p. 71; As cited in: John Carson, "Minding matter/mattering mind: Knowledge and the subject in nineteenth-century psychology." in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C. 30.3 (1999): p. 363