John Irving about hiding (“A Prayer for Owen Meany”, 1989) - Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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“ Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! ”
 John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989). copy citation

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John Irving about hiding (“A Prayer for Owen Meany”, 1989) - Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving about hiding (“A Prayer for Owen Meany”, 1989) - Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!