Truth is singular and lies are plural, but history - the facts of what happened is both immutable and mostly unknowable.
David CarrBut I've seen enough to know that we all carry a measure of guilt and innocence among us.
David CarrIt wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.
David CarrIn the Ebbinghaus curve, or forgetting curve, R stands for memory retention, s is the relative strength of memory and t is time. The power of a memory can be built through repetition, but it is the memory we are recalling when we speak, not the event. And stories are annealed in the telling, edited by turns each time they are recalled...People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.
David CarrThe onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, "Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.
David CarrTag: adulthood memoir drug-addiction memoty
Most of my stories are not nice ones, their heroic aspects dimmed by the fact that the hand which struck me was my own. Truly ennobling narratives describe a person overcoming the bad hand that fate has dealt him, not someone like me, who takes good cards and sets them on fire.
David CarrSome of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.
David CarrTag: addiction-recovery
As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time, do solid work for a reputable organization, and have, over the breadth of time, proven to be an attentive father and husband. So how to reconcile my past with my current circumstances? Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons, they access them. Was I faking it then, or am I faking it now? Which, you might ask, of my two selves did I make up?
David CarrEnd-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.
David Carr[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is the point of that?
David CarrTag: alcoholism
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