#memory

There, there, best to bring it all up,' she said. My memory was in shreds. Imagine a photograph cut into narrow strips then jumbled up. Everything is there, but you can't see the whole picture and even the strips have no bearing on reality. I did know I had consumed a large amount of alcohol. But I must have done something crazier than just being found drunk to have a nurse sitting by my bed. I thought it would be a good idea to say something and planned it for several seconds. 'She's all right,' I said. 'Who is?' asked the nurse. 'Alice. I'm all right now.' As I spoke I wondered if I had said something wrong. didn't sound like me. There were so many voices muttering in the background it was hard to tell. ↗

— Alice Jamieson

#confusion #dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-identity-disorder #fragmented

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#memory #men

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph. ↗

— Rosanne Moreland

#photography-memory-immortality #beauty

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#good #good memory #memory #never #realize

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#built #how #memory #much #surprising

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. ↗

— Richard Russo

#books #even #except #exist #i

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#fact #fascinated #i #memory #way

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#called #deeper #inflicted #material #memory

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger

#frame #lives #memory #myth #our

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#good #memory #things #very #world