"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."

Memory, Fiction, Reality

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"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."

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"Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Memory, Deception, Past, Truth

"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Memory, Time, Life, Change

"He noticed that she threw away the crumbled bus ticket on the street as soon as she got down. He picked it up and put it in his pocket along with his own a memorabilia of their first date together, just like a strand of her hair he would find later on his shirt and the broken pen cap that she would go on to search in the laboratory and so many other such small things which he would collect."

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

Memory, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

"Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Memory, Emotion, Heart, Pain

"It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Memory, Past, Grave, Walking

"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."

George Orwell, British Author

Memory, Symbolism, Eternity, Love

"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Memory, Moment, Life, Mind

".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Memory, Humanity, Distance, Teaching

"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Memory,

"Memories rob us of the present."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Memory, Truth, Life, Regret, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Haruki Murakami

"I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was."

Relationship

"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."

Perspective

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Thought

"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."

Ethics

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

Experience

"Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells."

Life

"I miss you something awful sometimes."

Emotion

"I'm not totally mad at you. I'm just sad. You're all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside."

Sadness

"I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling."

Psychology

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything."

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