Read quote“Nobody remembers your unfunniest moments like you do. They remember your funniest moments.”
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About Memory
Remembering, forgetting, recollection, and the role of memory in identity and experience.
The collection
Words on Memory
Read quote“I was able to discover some parts of my lost self.”
Read quote“Language is a nation’s soul and life, while history is its consciousness and memory.”
Read quote“We all come from poverty but we have to look back to where we have come from. We should not forget.”
Read quote“We were a little bit poor, but if you look back, this was probably the best time in our history.”
Read quote“Un día escribiré mis memorias, ¿quién que se irrespete no lo hace? Y allí estará todo.”
Read quote“Just because a witness is confident and emotional and detailed doesn’t mean that this thing they are describing really happened.”
Read quote“I have become an old man now but I miss the Olympic days.”
Read quote“I well remember, as a boy growing up in Hungary that there was only one Club for me – Arsenal.”
Read quote“But I have no memory. At least, not in the conventional sense.”
Read quote“How do you want to be remembered?”
Read quote“My work can represent links in the evolving narrative of memory and identity.”
Read quote“My tomb shall be in a certain place where each breath of the north wind shall shower down roses upon it.”
Read quote“I had a lot of rage that I look back on with amusement.”
Original editorial
Quote Stories about Memory
Light for the Listening
Mara wants one perfect exhibit. The lanterns she finds under an old theater floor teach her to make room for many voices.
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Small Things, Many Voices
Mina thought every object had one story—until her classmates taught her to listen for the others.
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A Box, Then a Door
Seventeen-year-old Elia expects a tidy catalog, but a box of undelivered letters leads her into the living memory of a harbor town—and toward a new way of helping people speak.
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