"I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future."

-- Gilles Peress

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Collective Memory Quotes

“The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.”
“It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.”
“I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching”
“First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
“It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.”
“I want to protect our constitutional right to bear arms in a legal and thoughtful way with background checks that also don't want people to get shot and murdered, but it doesn't mean that you can't own a gun.”
“By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.”

Source : Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”

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