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As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person. -- Charlie Pierce
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness. -- Ariel Dorfman
History is information. Memory is part of your identity. -- David Miliband
Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you. -- Stephen King
Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it. -- John Lahr
I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective. -- Heidi Julavits
Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment. -- American Psychiatric Association
the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception -- American Psychiatric Association

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