#memo

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ↗

— Doug Larson

#clear conscience #conscience #lot #memory #mistake

I will leave no memoirs. ↗

— Comte de Lautreamont

#leave #memoirs #will

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day. ↗

— Jude Law

#been #before #chapter #current #day

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#memory #true #truth #vital #which

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#age #area #come #continue #could

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. ↗

— David Leavitt

#certain degree #contract #degree #experience #i

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#eyes #memories #reality #you #your

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. ↗

— Ang Lee

#age #became #collective #event #glorified

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#arise #brutes #empirical #far #like

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand