"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

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Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

Marilynne Robinson

#Memories Quotes

“Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”
“On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.”
“The ultimate disguise is nothing. Nudity.”
“And I don't want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not...not be able to do what I want with you. Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I...i can't live with that knowledge. I can't. It's Not who I am. I can't be the kind of man who just...accepts.”

Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.322, Penguin
“In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results.”
“I never told a joke in my life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.”
“Maybe this isn't the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I've never been so proud of you in all my life. You've always been beautiful; you've always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it. As a father, I can't ask for more. I love you America. And I'm so so proud.”

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