Accounts Quote by Rob Roberge

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

— Rebecca McClanahan

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

— Alice Munro

“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.”

— Nicholas Carr

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

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

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 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 dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of…

— Julio Cortazar

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

— Romare Bearden

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

— Joan Didion