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Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies... -- Eileen Chang
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. -- John Dewey
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. -- Willa Cather
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. -- Robert Smithson
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). -- Daniel Dennett
Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option. -- Alex Gibney
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.' -- Tao Lin
Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others. -- Ramez Naam
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. -- Dweezil Zappa
As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to live under the threat of constant attack from enemies right next door, under ceaseless and often unfair international scrutiny, defending his homeland by day and living with the memories of mass genocide at night. -- Pete Hegseth
Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain. -- Arthur Miller
History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality -- Chuck Klosterman
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. -- Rajneesh
Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second. -- Dana Goodyear
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory. -- Marcel Proust
In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory. -- Deepak Chopra
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory. -- Jorge Luis Borges
That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. -- Frank Herbert
I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show. -- Jenny Hval
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. "¨ -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Artâ??the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. -- Lawrence Durrell

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