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“It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?”

Events Satisfied Remembered Cake

Author:Kevin McCloud

“Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.”

Years Father Winning Events Remembered Atonement Annuals Decisiveness

Author:Janet Suzman

“UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.”

Events Remembered Ufc

Author:Dana White

“I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.”

Play Culture Generations Fashion Events Keys Shapes Mark Pops Remembered Trends Pop Culture Present Life

Author:Connor Franta

“How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.”

Wells Looks May Country Reality Joy Dark Rooms Forever Events Summer Garden Bases Silent Delight Backgrounds Locals Remembered Association Flood Distress Sunny Lanes Recollection Great Joy

Author:Washington Irving

“People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.”

People Ifs Years Seems Past Loses Gone Century Events Succeed Remembered Remarkable Over It Velocity Past Events Years Gone By

Book:The Confessions of an Elderly Lady

Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady

“To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.”

Writing Art Ideas Half Events Shapes Memoir Narrative Remembered Editors Inventing Imposing

Author:William Zinsser