Degrees Quote by Siri Hustvedt

The past is more than a memory.

— John Trudell

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

— Jeff Bridges

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“[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

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

“THE MISCONCEPTION: Memories are played back like recordings. THE TRUTH: Memories are constructed anew each time from whatever information is currently available, which makes…

— David McRaney

“Memories are peculiar...You think the past is there, all fixed and stable, but it is really chock full of surprises and endlessly susceptible to…

— Elizabeth Arthur

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

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care…

— Sue Grafton

Memory is imagination pinned down.

— Mason Cooley