When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?
I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.
We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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