Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
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I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.
Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
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