The thing about memories wasn’t that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies
Quote from Dexter Palmer, Version Control Read More »
You know what I think?” she says. “That people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn’t matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They’re all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed ’em to the fire, they’re all just paper. The fire isn’t thinking ‘Oh, this is Kant,’ or ‘Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,’ or ‘Nice tits,’ while it burns. To the fire, they’re nothing but scraps of paper. It’s the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there’s no distinction–they’re all just fuel.
Quote from Haruki Murakami, After Dark Read More »
And I’ll dance with you in Vienna,I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.
Quote from Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs Read More »
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment – we are all defined by something we can’t change.
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Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.
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It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try to keep myself going. Nevertheless, I remember that time as extraordinary, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I don’t even wish now that I had more money. And had I been asked if I was suffering at the time, I would have said a defiant no.
Quote from Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays Read More »