“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited.
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A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than fact. Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other. But reality happens only once.
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Every story is made up. Even the real ones.
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That's the thing. Part of everything will always be forgettable. No matter how good or remarkable it is. It literally has to be. To be.”
―
Iain Reid,
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
