146 Quotes About Memoirs
"Never wait for a woman to show interest. It is not her interest we seek, but her desire,” whispered Casanova. “Intrigue her, tantalize her, flatter her and let her know that she is the only one in the room that you truly want. Women want to be admired and desired above all others. Even if they refuse you, they will never forget you."
"To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't."
"Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable."
"Stand to attention, soldier"My grandfather's gentle voice spoke. I saluted him as I had been shown."At ease," he spoke again.Then he pinned his medals to my shirtOne by one, those shining disksAlmost holy to meThe proof of what I knewHe was my hero"
"Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun."
"Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity."
"Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore paradoxes and discover previously unrealized personal truths. Writing is as arduous as any trek into the wilderness. Every sentence takes a writer deeper into the jungle of the mind, a world of frightening inconsistencies created by our waking life’s desire that the world of chaos conform to our convenience."
"Human souls enfold the elemental elements that we configure to provide our own distinctive explanation of what it means to be alive. By opening our hearts and minds, by engaging in intuitive self-exploration, by telling our life stories full of prejudices and mindboggling idiosyncrasies, and by listening to the multivariate stories of our brethren, we add a ray of light to the spiraling consciousness of humankind."