“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”
“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
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