Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.
Baltasar GraciánTags: memory
Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:
A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'd
By your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shade
Below the garden...
His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will be a great nuisance if no clue is given to their authorship.
To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.
Daniel G. AmenThe important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, the Penelope work of forgetting? ... And is not his work of spontaneous recollection, in which remembrance is the woof and forgetting the warp, a counterpart to Penelope's work rather than its likeness? For here the day unravels what the night has woven. When we awake each morning, we hold in our hands, usually weakly and loosely, but a few fringes of the tapestry of a lived life, as loomed for us by forgetting. However, with our purposeful activity and, even more, our purposive remembering each day unravels the web and the ornaments of forgetting.
Walter BenjaminTags: memory forgetting
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
James StephensTags: past memory forgetfulness
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
Jodi PicoultTags: love loss memory sad remember wish hopeful jodi-picoult plain-truth
So one can lose a good idea
by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides
it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations
are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does
recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.
Tags: thought memory forgetting
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
[Light in August]
Memory is the basis of every journey.
Stephen KingTags: journey memory stephen-king dreamcatcher
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry NewmanTags: mind literature memory
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