"What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling."

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Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

William Maxwell

#Memories Quotes #Mind Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.”
“You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.”

Source : "This column will change your life: mise en place" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.
“What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.”

Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press
“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”
“There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.”
“I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then.”
“I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so Ive always felt other.”

Source : "In 'Storied Life,' Characters Come With A Reading List". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 28, 2014.
“It doesnâ€™t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.”

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