Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Short term memory is not good.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Memory narrativises itself.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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