American Squirm

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

-HCB

IGGY POP - ON GETTING BY

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

-IP

DAVID HALBERSTAM

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

-DH

JOHN IRVING

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

-JI

INGRID BERGMAN - ON HAPPINESS

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

-IB

GEORGE SAVILE

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

-GS

TIMOTHY LEARY

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

-TL