Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
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.
It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.