“ 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
“ The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. George Eliot
“ 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
“ There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. Siri Hustvedt
“ What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing on the corner of Queen and Albert Streets waiting for someo… David Malouf
“ Telling our personal story constitutes an act of consciousness that defines the ethical lining of a person’s constitution. Recounting personal stories promotes personal growth, spurs the performance o… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings’ identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is th… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. Lucy Foley
“ People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ..… Hugo Hamilton
“ Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit. Michael Ondaatje
