As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.
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