"The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge."

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Source : Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books

Pat Barker

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Accumulation Quotes

“I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.”
“The first humans to come to Canada were the Indians. There is some mystery as to where the Indians came from. Some experts say that they came from the same place as the Eskimo. This doesn't help much because nobody knows where the Eskimo came from either. (Except the Eskimo, and they aren't talking.)”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
“The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.”
“Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.”
“Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.”
“We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, â€œYouâ€™re not the one.â€ We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or bothâ€”or even worse, cry and yell at us.”

Source : Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2007). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.”

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