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When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.