"We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory."

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Source : Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.33, Penguin

Laura Dave

#Memories Quotes #Years Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.”
“Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.”
“A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.”
“There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.”
“Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.”
“If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“I always credit; I never just steal something. I'm very much a product of everything that I've read and seen and heard or listened to.”

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