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“Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.”
― Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

“We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.”
― Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

“The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.”
― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto