"For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past."

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Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

Tan Twan Eng

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”
“Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge
“Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
“I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire”
“There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.”
“Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny.”
“Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.”
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”

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