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.
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210
In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in "Just A Couple Of Legends" CBS News.com (20 May 1998)
Variant: I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family — and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
The Second World War, Volume II : Their Finest Hour (1949) Chapter 8 (September Tensions).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“I remember, I had to pull over, and listen to it, because I'd never heard anything like it.”
On "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)".
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: I just remember pulling aside, I was driving, and I heard it on the radio, in the states — and she didn't really get played a lot in the states, until that song — that really got played — a lot. I remember, I had to pull over, and listen to it, because I'd never heard anything like it.
“I was 16 months old when I left Cuba, so I really don't remember anything”
about Cuba
"Roots of Rhythm" (1997 documentary film)
2007, 2008
Variant: I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
Source: City of Ashes
