Experience Quote by Bobby Adair

“Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Italo Calvino

“It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.”

— Marjorie Garber

“Memory is a great servant, but really bad master. When memory plays its role as a master, it limits our choices. It choices doors…

— Ika Natassa

“Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of…

— Daniel L. Schacter

“...memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.”

— Alice Sebold

“Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.”

— Joseph Goldstein

“Where is the borderland between memory and hallucination?”

— Siri Husvedt

“A perfect memory is the enemy of thought.”

— Esther Murphy Arthur

“Memory is just an alternate version of reality.”

— Candace Bushnell

“The main benefit of memory for past events may be that it allows us to imagine future events.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!”

— Ashim Shanker