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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.