“remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.”
Source: Freak the Mighty
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“If you try hard enough, anything can happen.”
After winning the Greater Hartford Open, Charlie Sifford, Who Shattered a Barrier of Race in Golf, Dies at 92 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/sports/golf/charlie-sifford-first-black-player-on-pga-tour-dies-at-92.html by New York Times
“You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.”
Source: Nova (1968), Chapter 3 (p. 36)
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210.
Context: For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
Excerpt from the foreword in Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/99_00/99girlboss.shtml, by Stacy Kravetz (1999)
1990s
“Remember: You can reach any goal you have in mind.”
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Variant: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”
Source: Drinking: A Love Story