You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.
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Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.
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