A Random Collection of Quotes about Memory and Memoir
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." Willa Cather
"A good snapshot keeps the moment from running away." Eudora Welty
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin." Barbara Kingsolver
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." Anne Sexton
"Memoirs are a well known form of fiction." Frank Harris
"People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to write fiction." Tom Robbins
"There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs." Will Rogers
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." Salvador Dali
"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The past is never dead, it is not even past." William Faulkner
"In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified." John Updike
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you might as well make it dance." George Bernard Shaw
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place."
Emily Dickinson
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"A good snapshot keeps the moment from running away." Eudora Welty
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin." Barbara Kingsolver
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." Anne Sexton
"Memoirs are a well known form of fiction." Frank Harris
"People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to write fiction." Tom Robbins
"There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs." Will Rogers
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." Salvador Dali
"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The past is never dead, it is not even past." William Faulkner
"In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified." John Updike
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you might as well make it dance." George Bernard Shaw
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place."
Emily Dickinson
Got a good one? Please send me your favorites for posting. Help grow the list.