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“Memory edits things, colours them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever's needed to make the story work.”
― María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

“Memory must have a good PR agent, because in reality, as an instrument of optical precision, it seems to me little better than a fairground kaleidoscope. To reconstruct an experience on the basis of images stored in our brains at times borders on hallucination. We do not recover the past, we re-create it: an act of dramaturgy if ever there was one. Memory edits things, colors them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever’s needed to make the story work.”
― María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady

“We are reluctant to quit things because we want to avoid the resulting heartbreak. The pain of failure is magnified by the sunk costs: all the time and effort and emotion you have already invested.”
― John A. List, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

“Escribir es retener, aprisionar, comprimir. Lo que se escapa.”
― Mariana Sández, Una casa llena de gente