“Memory is so much better at unhappiness than happiness.” — Jane Miller, Crazy Age
Tag: memory
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“Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.” — Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.” — Harold Pinter, Old Times
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“Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.” — Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
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“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.” — Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore
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“Anything I remember about that day other people have helped me to remember.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat’s Cradle
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“Memory is imagination pinned down.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
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“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.” — Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
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“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.” — Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Arrow of Gold