Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Memory narrativises itself.
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.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
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 a way of telling you what's important to you.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.