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Ashes of Vietnam: Australian Voices

by Stuart Rintoul

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Nov 15, 2019 03:24AM

“She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

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“When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.”
― Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters

tags: reason

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“You decide for yourself when it will hurt.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

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