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John Irving

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"

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"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"

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A.E. Samaan

"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"

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A.E. Samaan

"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."

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A.E. Samaan

"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"If knew more about Alzheimer's and the Brain, your mind will be blow and most cases you will confused..."

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A.E. Samaan

"Hatred can't erase love memories.You need to focus on anything else."

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A.E. Samaan

"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

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A.E. Samaan

"Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run."

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A.E. Samaan

"I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ..."

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A.E. Samaan

"The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature."

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John Irving
"There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly."

Self-Improvement

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John Irving
"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."

Reason

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John Irving
"Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is."

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John Irving
"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."

Sympathy

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John Irving
"You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else."

People

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John Irving
"I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography."

Imagination

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John Irving
"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."

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John Irving
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

Business

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John Irving
"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

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John Irving
"The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of."

Architecture

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