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“Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.”

“[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.”

Thinking Book Memories Husband Conversation Draws Titles Collections Scrap Magnet

Book:Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

Source: Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

“I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.”

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Book:Junior

Source: Junior

“By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.”

Memories Calling Memoir Titles Collections Documentaries

Author:Natalie Merchant

“The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.”

Two Memories Office Collections Distribution

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.