Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.
Salman RushdieTags: strength experience empowerment writing courage memory creative-process aims guenter-grass record-of-life
I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.
Lucy GrealyTags: truth knowledge memory enlightenment
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: memory
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
Samantha HuntTags: memory time-travel
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.
George OrwellTags: politics truth paradox reality lies belief democracy opinion alternative-facts memory logic truthfulness corruption government 1984 contradiction doublethink hypnosis conciousness 2017 trump unconsciousness
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.
Rodman PhilbrickMy mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.
Dave EggersHow can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?
Melina MarchettaTags: memory
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
George SteinerTags: world philosophy language memory linguistics
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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