Banality Quote by Ian Mcewan

“I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of…

— Joseph Conrad

“Now he reduced his progress to the rhythm of his boots -- he walked across the land until he came to the sea. Everything…

— Ian McEwan

“He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.”

— Chris Marker

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“it was as if these memories had been hibernating in him, not dead but merely dormant, weathering out, and now they stumbled out of…

— Anthony Doerr

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

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

“Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to say: history…

— Paul Auster

“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among…

— Paul Auster

“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his…

— Nanci Kincaid

It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain,…

— Diana Gabaldon

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

— Chris Marker