“Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present”
Source: Clockwork Prince
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“One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”
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“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.”
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"Fiction", speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926; published in Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, p. 80 http://books.google.com/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&q=%22elder+sister%22&pg=PA80
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“Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.”
Source: Tell No One

Quote of Degas in 1883, as cited by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 30 note 10
Degas confided this to Pierre-George Jeanniot
1876 - 1895