Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Memories
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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