"Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?"

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Source : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Mira Bartok

#Memories Quotes

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.”
“I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.”
“A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.”
“You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.”
“In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.”
“Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.603, Simon and Schuster
“Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.”
“How you feel at the time affects how you receive and react to communication from others. You have to put on your objective eyes and ears in order to be consistently fair. - Charmainsim”

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