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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Observation is an old man’s memory.

It’s my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there’s a lot of gray area.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

People don’t remember. Revenge is sweet.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.