Memory System

Famous quotes containing the words memory and/or system:

“But what do you keep of me?
The memory of my bones flying
up into your hands.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)