Alex-garland Quote by Alex Garland

“A memory is not the thing remembered.”

— Patrick Ness

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta

“Memory had a habit of erasing, leaving only the most necessary.”

— Daisy Johnson

“Who was it said that memory is what we thought we’d forgotten?”

— Julian Barnes

“The whole experience was prime material for memory repression. I”

— Bobby Adair

“What isn't remembered never happened. Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record.”

— Yoshitoshi ABe

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

“Your clear conscience is due to a poor memory.”

— Anonymous

“A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.”

— R.J. Newman

“Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.”

— Italo Calvino

“A memory is an echoing of what was once happening.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes a memory is a thing that can't be explained using words.”

— Cath Crowley