America Quote by Eduardo Galeano

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land…

— Eduardo Galeano

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

— Jules Renard

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at…

— Tim O'Brien

“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have turned them…

— Judith Barrington

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Had I been brought to America a few years earlier, I might have written that in such and such a year my father emigrated,…

— Mary Antin

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux

Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

— Henry Giroux

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

— Ruskin Bond

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

— William S. Burroughs