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Nicole Krauss Quotes about Memories

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The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the

The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

Nicole Krauss
Memories, Data, Ideas
Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.39, Anchor

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

Nicole Krauss
Memories, Doe, Different

My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

Nicole Krauss
Memories, Men, Self

Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.

Nicole Krauss
Hurt, Memories, Fall
Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.138, Anchor

Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs.

Nicole Krauss
Memories, Father, Years
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could.

Nicole Krauss
Memories, Dad, Winning
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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