"What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed."

-- Julian Barnes

#Nostalgia Quotes #Remember Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.”
“I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.”
“Anything processed by memory is fiction.”

Source : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.57, Vintage
“To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.”
“Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.”
“Whenever I hear an American say Aussies drive on the 'wrong side of the road,' I just lose it. You ever think about how those people grew up driving on the 'wrong side of the road,' watched a lot of people get hurt on the 'wrong side of the road,' die on the 'wrong side of the road,' while other people cheered from the 'right side of the road'? Australia has a thing called Highway Fights, so it's touchy.”
“When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.”
“Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.”

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