A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

Fawn M. Brodie
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become. In other words, people often remember events very differently from what they actually happened. Memory is a notoriously tricky thing, but it is sometimes possible to figure out what actually happened from all the things people remember, or think they remember.

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