Memories Quote by Cormac McCarthy

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

In violence, we forget who we are

— Mary McCarthy

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

— Allen Wier

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

— David Grann

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

“The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles; next they…

— Glenn L. Pace

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all…

— Mark Lawrence

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

— Gerald Fischbach