"Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human."

-- Joshua Foer

#Memories Quotes #Party Quotes #Character Quotes

“If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.”
“Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.”
“I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.158, Random House
“Art still has truth. Take refuge there.”
“People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.
“I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.”

Source : Song: Red Rain
“When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.”

Source : "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.
“There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.”

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