| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 8021 |
| QUOTATION: | The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), Anglo-Irish novelist. Vogue (New York, Sept. 15, 1955). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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