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“When you wake up and your heart is going like the clappers or your back feels strained, or you develop some other hang-up, you should let your mind go to the pain and the pain itself will regurgitate the memory which originally caused you to suppress it in your body. In this way the pain goes to the right channel instead of being repressed again, as it is if you take a pill or a bath, saying 'Well, I'll get over it'. Most people channel their pain into God or masturbation or some dream of making it.”

People Ifs Way Feels Should Mind Wells Heart Dream Body Pain Memories Wake Up Your Body Over It Get Over Pills Baths Masturbation Repressed Hang Ups

Author:John Lennon

“If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.”

Ifs Men May Enough Memories Good Memories

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.”

Ifs May Remember Law Used Memories Concepts Court Innocent Used To Be Guilty Innocence Proven No Point Presumption Good Memories American Law Presumption Of Innocence

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.”

Ifs Book Asks House Memories Wife Terrible Faults My Wife Inability Saying No Handy

Author:Hugh Jackman

“If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.”

Ifs Memories Photograph Stranger

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.”

“For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.”

Ifs Way Mean Reality Black Memories Loss Photography Overcoming Cameras Moved Folks Documents

Author:Bell Hooks

“One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.”

Ifs Littles Remember Memories Cry Despair Photograph Impression Surviving Stirring

Author:W. G. Sebald

“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.”

Ifs Trying Moments Reality Night Speak Memories Middle Paper Shadow Exposed Middle Of The Night Darkening

Book:Austerlitz

Source: Austerlitz

“[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good, obeys the universal laws of entropy. Heat cools, matter disintegrates, memories fade. If we let them.”

“You also convert real memories, whatever that means, into film versions of those memories. Because by the time you've finished the project you can't remember the real memories anymore, you just remember the film versions of them. And then if the film failed you have distaste for them. So I don't think about that stuff anymore.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Real Remember Film Stuff Memories Projects Finished Versions Distaste

Author:Guy Maddin

“The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.”

Ifs Way Want Reason Memories Chance Answers Consciousness Come Up Our Memories Erase

Author:Elijah Wood

“Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.”

Ifs Grows Memories Lessons Who We Are Bad Experiences Bad Memories

Author:Elijah Wood

“I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Real Done Problem Film Actors Strong Difficult Memories Consciousness Very Strong Tricky Our Memories Real Problems Impersonate Pollock

Author:Peter Webber

“If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.”

Ifs Enough Hours Memories Unions Conquer Lifts Stamps Abraham Crucifixion Wreaths Future Time

Book:Memoranda During the War

Source: Memoranda During the War

“...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.”

“I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens I Can Moments Would Be Able Wish Lines Memories Sleep Enemy Worst Track Awful Faculty Affected Insomnia Worst Enemy Back On Track

Author:Emily Lloyd

“When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.”

Ifs Ideas Different Remember Memories Brain Effects Repeats Sequence Triggers Different Place Edited Juxtaposition

Author:Lynne Tillman

“Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.”

Ifs Writing Trying Would Be Age Black Memories White Greater Exciting Painful Black And White Static

Author:Damian Barr

“Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.”

Ifs Way Stories Memories Technology Faculty Outsourcing

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away.”

Ifs Stills Stories Memories Going Away

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.”

Ifs Knows Song Memories Good Memories

Author:George Ezra

“The only thing you can ever ask for is that, like what I was saying with memories, that somehow my music can fit into somebody's memory. If it can be the soundtrack to somebody's happy days then that would be amazing.”

Ifs Would Be Asks Memories Fit Soundtracks Happy Day

Author:George Ezra

“If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.”

People Ifs Firsts Persons Enough Stories Memories Subjects Materials Interpretation Just Being First Person

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.”

People Ifs Knows Way Past Parent Memories Photograph Bunch Recalls Charming Our Past Uncles Aunt Your Past Our Memories Drawers Disconnected Postman Old Photographs

Author:Gail Zappa

“I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ..." instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway.”

Ifs Giving Feels Writing I Can Stories Memories Events Perception Direct Give Me Objectives Meant To Be Infallible Objective Truth

Author:Marie Calloway

“Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations. So, you know, if you remember from when you were, you know, in second grade and there was Christmas and you got a present from your grandfather and your mom was wearing a red dress, that may or may not all have happened.”

Ifs Knows May Remember Memories Happened Mom Red Dresses Grades Copies Grandfather Recalls Adaptation Your Mom Susceptible

Author:Pete Docter

“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.”

“If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground .”

Ifs Feelings Past Felt Memories Sadness Right Now Currents Recalls Very Happy Feeling Sad Happy Memories

Author:Pete Docter

“So it's like your brain has a large filing cabinet and it's opening up each drawer and it's taking in various images and memories from the day, consolidating what it needs to and puts in whatever file. And then if there's something that doesn't fit in any of the files and doesn't really belong, you'll forget about it. So it's a way of really getting a succinct way of storing things in your brain.”

Ifs Way Needs Memories Forget Brain Like You Fit Various Opening Files Cabinets Drawers Opening Up Filing Filing Cabinet

Author:Shelby Harris

“I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.”

Ifs Children Young Parent Memories Singers Opera Young Children Opera Singers

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.”

Ifs Knows Mean Would Be Father Memories Ancient Rome Senators Carter Ancient Rome

Author:Gore Vidal

“If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.”

People Ifs Way Persons Play Whole Law Fun Stuff Sound Memories Records Becoming Mess Composer Transformed Layers Conductor Copyright Collages Copyright Law

Author:DJ Spooky

“If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis. We were laughing within a minute of meeting - always a good sign.”

Ifs Fall Memories Laughing Minutes Mets Meetings Former Restaurants Kate Minneapolis

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“Who you are, where you've been and what you've done is all up here, captured and preserved in your memories. If you lost that - the story of your own origins - you'd lose your identity, your sense of self.”

Ifs Self Done Stories Lost Loses Memories Identity Who You Are Captured Our Memories Sense Of Self

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.”

Ifs Memories Steps Ready Behavior Judgment Prison Response

Author:Deepak Chopra

“When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose.”

Ifs Years Looks Moments Form Memories Information Exciting Twenties Preservation

Author:Reggie Watts

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.”

Ifs Stills Whole Purpose Given Memories Leaving Illness Stealing Certainty Ease Each Day Shocking Starving Crumbs No Memory

Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.”

Ifs Thinking Want Littles Sound Memories Animal Smell Get Away Sensations Bites Sound Bites

Author:Temple Grandin

“1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.”

Ifs Home Games Memories Red Cat Radio

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.”

Ifs Turns Given Memories Risk Subjects Judgment Perception Aim Operations Etc Affirmation Competence Competent Assessment Inference

Author:Ernest Sosa

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