"Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not……" — Anna Funder
"Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals."
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16 Quotes by Anna Funder
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Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is…
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
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Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
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We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us…
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This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside…
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I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the…
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I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is…
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At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We…
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
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For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the…
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I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties…
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More Alters Quotes
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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The eye altering, alters all.
— William Blake
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
— James Allen
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my…
— Oswald Chambers
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
— Claude Monet
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Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our…
— Drake
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or…
— Gerald Brenan
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Every action alters the soul of the doer.
— Oswald Spengler
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental…
— Unknown Author
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
— Joan Didion
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess…
— Barry Lopez
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In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well…
— Richard Sibbes
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