to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.
P. D. JamesBooks of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
P. D. JamesOf all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
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