Ability Quote by Haruki Murakami

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

— Haruki Murakami

“History is complex, with levels of detail; it must be taught and may not be known by all members of the group. Collective memory,…

— Wendy Griswold

“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids,…

— Wendy Griswold

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

— Umberto Eco

It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds…

— Rebecca Walker

“In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our…

— Michael Crichton

Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they…

— Israel Rosenfield

“[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 place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

— Sharon Cameron

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a…

— Diane Ackerman

Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but a grander…

— Bettany Hughes