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Quote with a picture of Jamaica Kincaid at the Göteborg Book Fair in September 02019.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on October 1, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Jamaica Kincaid, memoryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote with a picture of Tennessee Williams.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on March 26, 2022March 21, 2022Categories QuotationsTags memory, present moment, Tennessee WilliamsLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote with a picture of Kurt Vonnegut.

“Anything I remember about that day other people have helped me to remember.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat’s Cradle

Author YahooeyPosted on December 1, 2021November 29, 2021Categories QuotationsTags Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., memory, remembering2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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Quote on a blurred picture of a spinning ballet dancer.

“Memory is imagination pinned down.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)

Author YahooeyPosted on November 1, 2021October 31, 2021Categories QuotationsTags Mason Cooley, memoryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Author YahooeyPosted on January 10, 2021December 25, 2020Categories QuotationsTags Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, memory, vanityLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.” — Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

Author YahooeyPosted on December 19, 2020December 6, 2020Categories QuotationsTags An Unnecessary Woman, desire, memory, Rabih AlameddineLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.

“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.” — Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Arrow of Gold

Author YahooeyPosted on July 19, 2020July 15, 2020Categories QuotationsTags Joseph Conrad, memoryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

“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

Author YahooeyPosted on May 10, 2020May 2, 2020Categories QuotationsTags A Pale View of Hills, circumstances, context, Kazuo Ishiguro, memory, remembering, unreliableLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

“The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.” — David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

Author YahooeyPosted on May 4, 2020April 27, 2020Categories QuotationsTags David Mitchell, ghostwriting, Ghostwritten, memoryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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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.

“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)

Author YahooeyPosted on March 16, 2020March 15, 2020Categories QuotationsTags memory, Will RogersLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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