“ The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. George Eliot
“ Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, falli… Thomas Beller
“ Before I can say , I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, w… Wallace Stegner
“ We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. Joan Didion
“ We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior t… Frank Herbert
“ Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness. Frank Wanderer
“ If chained is where you have been, your ams will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness, or… Barbara Kingsolver
“ With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these… Sol Luckman
“ Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history. Laurie Perez
“ Our parents tell us the story of our beginning and they have total control over it--they know they've changed it, and we know they've changed it, but we just let them. They massage the details to refl… Catherynne M. Valente
