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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."
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"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."
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"Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead."
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"He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul."
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"What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future."
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"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."
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"Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child."
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"People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie."
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"It's not that I can't remember. It's that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it."
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"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."
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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
Wisdom
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
Truth
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
Patriotism
"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
Wisdom
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Integrity
"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."
Society
"Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat."
Wisdom
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Wisdom
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."
Wisdom
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
Wisdom
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