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“In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.”

Two Imagination Memories Fiction Impossible Witness Ingredients Broads Mills Processing

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.”

Knows Men Remember Memories Know How Witness

Author:Will Rogers

“Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my memory.”

“Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.”

Needs Humans Helping Memories Justice Information Divine Paper Eternity Guilty Witness Mediocre Papers Prosecution Interrogation Concise Informers Divine Justice

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.”

“Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.”

Source: Scepticism and Animal Faith

“I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.”

Use Past Memories Pleasure Achievement Harmony Supreme Wander Witness Gathering Innate Folds Suspended

Book:Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951

Source: Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951

“To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.”

World Soul Feelings Imagination Natural Memories Forever Return Calm Rhythm Witness Belonging Lions Worn Natural World Our Memories Herds Revive Rhythm Of Life

Author:George Schaller

“I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime the specter of politicians picking targets and ruling out offensive measures in the absurd hope that the enemy would respond to our restraint by yielding to our demands.”

Memories Enemy Politician Demand Lifetime Absurd Witness Target Vietnam Offensive Restraint Ruling

Author:John McCain

“Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.”

Past Memories Behavior Mood Witness Our Memories Past Memories

Author:Deepak Chopra