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William Maxwell Quotes: What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.
         

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.


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His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

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My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

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If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.



Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.



Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).



Your reader is at least as bright as you are

Your reader is at least as bright as you are



I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.



In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.



A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.





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