“He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man’s billfold.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 22)
“Time's the thief of memory”
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Stephen King
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The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
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