225 Quotes About Memoir-writing
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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The laws that govern the universe also reveal it. Likewise, the way that we think unmasks us.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Self-identity depends upon our manner of apprehending the world. Life for me is primarily about distilling patterns, attempting to sift between the ordinary and extraordinary events of daily of life in order to weave a mosaic that defines and clarifies the reasons behind why and how I live.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Life for the artist and all humanity is a soulful objet d’art full of hope, promise, expectation, romance, love, and affection.
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- Author Valeria Teles
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I believe that the heart is the master of our lives, the mind our powerful servant, and the body the bridge between them.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Assuming that external physical causes do not entirely proscribe the outcome of our life journey, we have some say in not only what we do, but also in determining what situations we find ourselves needing to respond, and a combination of our conscious and unconscious responses continue to shape our being.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently creates what we describe as beautiful by depicting what is at first glance unpleasing, peculiar, or abnormal and casting the unpleasant, strange, or outlandish images into a more agreeable light that reaches deeper truths.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.
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We use the tools of memory and imagination to construct and depict stories; they make up the double-sided face of the same mental coin. Memory houses many images. The ability mentally to depict and store images depends upon the power of association prompted by the rational and imaginative thoughts of the mind. Recollection of past thoughts is dependent upon the quality of our memory system. The Ancient Greeks taught us, memory is the mother of our personal muse.
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Both memory and imagination arrest time. By conjoining memory and imagination in forming storytelling’s language, style, and texture, writers’ negate the mind’s march into forgetfulness. We employ the full sprung use of memory and imagination to blunt our descent into nothingness.
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