#memo

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. ↗

— David Halberstam

#less #memory #often #than #truth

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. ↗

— David Halberstam

#book #driving #easier #get #marketing

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#dying #memories #time #death

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. ↗

— Thomas More

#brings #days #fond #light #me

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#different #feeling #had #hearing #i

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#heart #memory #mind #stored

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#childhood #childhood memories #chocolate #feeling #first

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#blizzard #call #canada #chills #cold

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction. ↗

— Frank Harris

#form #memoirs #well-known

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#i #memoir #more #pleasant #than