“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
Tag: memory
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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
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“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.” — Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
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“The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.” — David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
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“People are trying to tell you all that happened in a case that happened seven years ago, when they couldn’t tell you all that happened yesterday.” — Will Rogers, “Will Rogers Comments on Fools and the Sacco Case,” Daily Telegram #325 (1927-08-07)
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