Deceiving Quote by Julio Cortazar

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

— John Irving

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

— Thomas de Quincey

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I…

— Michel de Montaigne

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is…

— Thomas Fuller

“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it…

— Gunter Grass

Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a…

— Melina Marchetta