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We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over time... but that's the implacable judgment of feeling: This, we say somewhere within is, is something I'm hanging on to.
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Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
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No memoirist writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.
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We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Patricia Hampl
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March 12, 1946
(age 78)
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