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Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth
Memories, Past, Facts
Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth
Memories, Past, Imagination
Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

Philip Roth
Memories, Biographies, Bones

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

Philip Roth
Memories, Boys, Childhood

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