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To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

Quotes by Romesh Gunesekera

Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day - and soon we have made out of that event a myth....

Quotes by Rollo May

I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I...

Quotes by Roma Downey

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

Quotes by Rohinton Mistry

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like...

Quotes by Roisin Murphy

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

Quotes by Roger McGuinn

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

Quotes by Rodney Crowell

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

Quotes by Robert Wilson

John Hurt was pretty bad. I know it's pretty terrible to besmirch the memory of a dead man, but he was really rude to me.

Quotes by Robert Sheehan

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

Quotes by Robert Pinsky

The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which...

Quotes by Robert P. McCulloch

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory...

Quotes by Robert J. Waldinger

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

Quotes by Robert Ingpen

I first met Michael in the early days of the Jackson 5 at the family home in Los Angeles, and the memory that stands out is that Michael, as cute and wide-eyed as an 11-year-old could be, was eager to...

Quotes by Robert Hilburn

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his...

Quotes by Robert Emmet

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

Quotes by Robert Creeley

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

Quotes by Robby Mook

My dad got into this group, Commission, with Fred Hammond, and that was my biggest gospel memory. I would hear that all the time, and listening to their voices helped me develop my voice because I would try to emulate...

Quotes by Ro James

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Roald Dahl

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Is there a quote about a troubling political administration?
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Is there a quote personifying nature as having a memory?
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Is there a quote defining what literature really is?
Yes, put very simply: "Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory." Our Life quotes explore more on what shapes how we understand our own experiences.
Do more than one of these quotes repeat the same idea?
Yes - two near-identical versions of the same thought about nature having "a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do" appear here, both making the same essential point about nature's lasting judgment.
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