"Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words."

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Memories Quotes #Brain Quotes #Revision Quotes

“Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.”
“Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.”
“To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press
“People would rather be shown how valuable you are, not told.”
“War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.”
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”
“Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.”

Source : John McPhee (1996). “The Second John McPhee Reader”, p.19, Macmillan

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