Bad habit Quote by Cynthia Ozick

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

— Gerald Brenan

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires…

— Heidi Julavits

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.” ― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it…

— Salman Rushdie

“Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

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

Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past…

— Milan Kundera

Invented memory is a subject that fascinates me.

— Warren Beatty

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

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

— Julio Cortazar