M Quotes
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“Memo to The States of Earth
All through time, the conquerors have been writing history. But no more! The conquerors are no longer the supreme emperor of the narrative, even if all the spineless governments take their side. Because guess what - society is no longer a property of the state. You ask us to vaccinate, we shall vaccinate - you ask us to follow traffic rules, we shall follow traffic rules - you ask us to file our taxes, we shall file our taxes - because that's the civilized thing to do. But if you ask us to support your rich moron of a friend in his exploits of conquest and domination, you shall not have a government to begin with. Remember that.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.”
“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.”
“Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.”
“Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.”
“Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.”
“Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.”
“Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.”
“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.”
“Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.”
“Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.”
“Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.”
“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once again inhabit the skin of who we were and what we have learned. Writing memoir is an act of testimony, witnessing, healing. When you write a memoir, you draw upon layers of your consciousness and discover your true nature, your essential self, and are transformed the process.” Linda Joy Meyer”
“Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.”
“Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience, of consciousness itself. That includes a story, but also the whole expanding universe of sensation and thought ... Memoirists wish to tell their mind. Not their story.”
“Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."”
“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”
“Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.”
“Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question, so that if you are a reviewer or you are writing a critique you might feel as if you are stepping on someone's actual face?”
“Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.”
“Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.”
“Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.”
Source: Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know
“Memorable stories of every culture tell us what principles the citizenry saved their smiles for and shed their sorrowful tears lamenting.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Memoria este teritoriu sacru. Dar este si teritoriul bantuit. Este locul in care furia mea, vina si jalea se rotesc precum pasari infometate ciugulind aceleasi si aceleasi oase vechi de hoit. Este locul in care caut raspunsul la intrebarea de neraspuns: "De ce am supravietuit?”
Source: The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“Memoria - fie memoria individuală, fie memoria colectivă care este cultura - are o dublă funcție. Una, într-adevăr, e să conserve anumite date, cealaltă să cufunde în uitare informațiile ce nu ne folosesc și care ne-ar putea încărca inutil mințile.”
Source: Nu sperați că veți scăpa de cărți
“Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.”
“Memorial Day 2020 was spent remembering almost one hundred thousand dead Americans from COVID-19.”
“Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War. That’s understandable; it was created to mourn the dead of a war in which the Union was nearly destroyed, when half the country rose up in rebellion in defense of slavery.”
Source: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
“Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.”
“Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.”
“Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.”
Source: Howard Zinn on War
“Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.”
“Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.”
Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.”
“Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.”
Source: Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
“Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.”
Source: Deathwish
“MEMORIES
All memories of days gone by
can only be remembered in the twilight
of evening’s calm warmth
All memories remembered in the full light of day
unsettles the mind and frustrates the spirit
All memories are tides
and fluid mists gliding
through the caverns and temples of our mind
All memories have no meaning
unless woven into our soft sweet hearts’
forgiveness and desire for love’s wholeness
and release”
“Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.”
“Memories and magic is what Christmas is all about.”
“Memories and Mysteries
The Secret of the Ages;
The stories of the past;
The Tales of the Forgotten;
The moments that won't last;
The Secrets of the Soul;
The stories that we tell;
The secrets that we hold;
The secret of the hearts.
-Aron Micko H.B”
Source: At the Back
“Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.”
“Memories are a bit like houses, don’t you think? They scaffold all this stuff. Curate it; give things a place so you feel safe and secure. And you step through the rooms and remember what was. But it’s not real, they’re just walls. And before you know it, most of your life is just memories, some of them not even that clear. And it’s just a house that reminds you what it felt like when you thought it was a home. You don’t realize how ephemeral it is. How temporary. That it’s just all going to be something you remember. And the memories that made you feel safe, made you feel like you, are just a flimsy reminder of what’s gone to dust and that every second that passes is going to be the same, just something you remember.”
She stares back at the house. “Past is past. The dead don’t come back. Maybe it’s best just to let them go.”
Source: A Million Things
“Memories are a form of simile: when we say something is 'like' we are remembering.”
Source: In Search of a Character
“Memories are aches; they are the laughter
Smiles of time flee to seize the hereafter”
“Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living. The only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Memories are beautiful because they (are) memories.
Reviving them ruins your life's journey”
“Memories are (beautiful) because they are (memories), stop trying to live in them again.”
“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
“Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.”
“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
Source: Prince of Thorns