It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.
During these three months I have gone through much; I mean, I have gone through much in myself; and now there are the things I am going to see and go through. There will be much to be written.
(n.) Alt. of Memoirs
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.
This sound, which like all music--indeed, like all pleasure--I had been numbly unresponsive to for months, pierced my heart like a dagger, and in a flood of swift recollection I thought of all the joy...
Ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is a sort of magical safety harness that guides us from one...
Mates, to my sisters and me, are seen mainly as shadows of the people they’re involved with. They move. They’re visible in direct sunlight. But because they don’t have access to our emotional buttons—...
Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.
I was right when I said a very long time ago that our age would leave few living documents behind it: it was rare for anyone to keep a diary, letters were short and businesslike--"I'm alive and well"-...
Alone, I relished the bird songs, the drone of hushed conversation from neighboring tables, and the gentle lapping of waves sliding on the shore. I didn't feel the passage of time. There was no destin...
Even wondered about the difference?Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accom...
If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.
The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.
Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be.
Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.
That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.
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