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Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one. -- Elizabeth Loftus
My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory. -- Elizabeth Loftus
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. -- Adrienne Rich
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. -- Richard Dawkins
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. -- Eckhart Tolle

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