Incomplete Quote by Claude Simon

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.

— Claude Simon

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we…

— Joshua Foer

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

— Louise Glück

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

— Joan Didion

“Memory deforms reality, which nevertheless is formed as reality only in memory”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

— John Irving

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what…

— Graydon Carter

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own…

— Salman Rushdie

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson