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Memory narrativises itself.


Aleksandar Hemon

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JAMES STEPHENS Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
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JULIAN BARNES Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or pur...
AANCHAL MALHOTRA Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terror...
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LYSTER For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasu...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of plea...
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DANA SPIOTTA As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, a...
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MARK LAWRENCE Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
WAYNE GRADY I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
BILL GATES Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain
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ROALD DAHL Sometimes a memory is stuck in your memory for eternity
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PAT CONROY To have memory return is to find consciousness pervaded by a variety of identifications, all simulta...
CHARLES ALTIERI It's amazing how a traumatic memory can remain very much alive. It doesn't behave like a regular mem...
ALAIN BRUNET I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
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MARCEL PROUST Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.
JOHN LAHR The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.
PITTACUS LORE I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
WALE Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
ANN-MARIE MACDONALD Memory Speaks!
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MARCEL PROUST The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precio...
SUSAN SONTAG A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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LORD BYRON If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
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JOHN IRVING God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
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