There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

Kevin Powers
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  3. This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind... - Ralph Alfred Habas
  4. We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember. - Ian Bates
  5. The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost... - Paul Auster
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  1. We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.
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  3. All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.
  4. I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which they were a part. And so on, until it all dissolved into the larger thing: my mother's house becoming every other house as...
  5. Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
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