Home » Memory Memory 1 There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized. Isabel Allende Truth, Imagination, Memory Add to Collection 2 My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather. Isabel Allende Life, Father, Memory Add to Collection 3 Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. Wendell Berry Nature, Justice, Memory Add to Collection 4 Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. Wendell Berry Nature, Justice, Memory Add to Collection 5 In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. Oscar Wilde Hope, Memory, Live Add to Collection 6 Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde Memory, Carry, Diary Add to Collection 7 Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. Abraham Lincoln Nature, Memory, Heart Add to Collection 8 Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. Albert Einstein Today, Memory, Events Add to Collection
