Georges Erasmus

Where common memory is lacking, where people do not share in the same past, there can be no real community. Where community is to be formed, common memory must be created.

Robert A. Heinlein - Friday

My grandparents used to tell me about a time when people were polite and nobody hesitated to be outdoors at night and people often didn't even lock their doors-much less surround their homes with fences and walls and barbed wire and lasers. Maybe so; I'm not old enough to remember it. It seems to me that, all my life, things have grown worse and worse.

A dozen Heinlein quotations for sci fi day

Lisa Dollar

The best memories are ones that you could never, ever forget.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno

There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time that you were happy.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.