"Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember."

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Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 04, 2016

Joan Didion

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Remember Quotes

“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.”
“I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.”
“When our children and grandchildren look back on this period, one question will overwhelm all the rest: Did we do everything in our power to fight and to win the war on terror? That's the fundamental question this generation faces.”
“One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.”
“I love jazz music and sad music.”
“You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.”
“Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything I write with extra facts, stuff I picked up. At the same time, especially in this day and age, you've got to make it sound like, or read like, you've not just been Googling because that's not fair, that's not right!”
“In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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