"I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Marco Roth

#Memories Quotes #Father Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation. We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice. When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood. We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.”

Source : James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.116, Inner City Books
“I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have some excess resources. And they trade those resources with artists whose work makes them feel good, or feel better, or question. And the artist, if they're smart, they use it to buy the most expensive thing in the world: time to make more. The more that come, the better it is for these people, their children, the people they care about, fills the society with a real constant thing.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
“In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things”
“Every man is our brother, and every manâ€™s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.”

Source : "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.
“You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.”
“If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.”
“I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.”
“As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.”

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