"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."

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Source : Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage

Philip Roth

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.”
“What would the world be without him, and those like him?”
“I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.”
“After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.”
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”

Source : James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag
“Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.”
“Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.”
“I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.”

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