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Letter "R" » reminiscences
«The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.»
«Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
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Essayist,
Theologian,
Writer)
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Keywords:
autobiography,
discontinuities,
discontinuity,
extensive,
fleeting,
Here I Am,
recollection,
reminiscence,
reminiscences,
The Sequence
«One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence»
«In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.»
«Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad»
«Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts / a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
accompaniment,
American art,
American government,
black art,
buried,
funeral,
In the Navy,
Marine,
Marines,
navy,
reminiscence,
reminiscences,
under arms,
yard
«In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by disc»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
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Educator,
Social Reformer,
Writer)
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About:
Writing
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Keywords:
argued,
arrival,
dialect,
dialects,
disc,
Phaedrus,
Plato,
quest,
quest for,
reminiscence,
reminiscences,
revolutionize,
revolutionized,
revolutionizing,
suggested,
The Arrival
«Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor»