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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. -- William Peter Blatty
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. -- Elie Wiesel
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. -- David Leavitt
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. -- Herbert Gold
I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows. -- Brian Greene
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. -- Janet Frame
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true. -- Daniel Kahneman
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized. -- Isabel Allende
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me. -- Francine Pascal
Lies is lying the memory from the truth -- Ahmad Rahmat Ramadhan
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth. -- Igor Stravinsky
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. -- Jesse Ventura
Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience. -- Cynthia Daignault
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. -- Denis Diderot
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! -- Mark Twain
Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory. -- Jesse Ventura
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth. -- Chelsea Cain
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world -- Kim Stafford
If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory -- Judy Sheindlin
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. -- David Halberstam
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. -- D. H. Lawrence
That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. -- Haruki Murakami
There are always three sides to every memory"yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. -- Joseph Conrad
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. -- Aulus Gellius
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age. -- Harley King
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds. -- James R. Heath
I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth. -- Vladimir Nabokov
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth. -- Brunonia Barry
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could. -- Cheryl Strayed
Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth. -- Ann Brashares
In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. -- Benjamin Franklin
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless. -- Ajahn Chah

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