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There is no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, no less: and its resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worthy only of the name of dream. - William Faulkner (Absalom, Absalom! Quotes)

There is no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, no less: and its resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worthy only of the name of dream.

Source:(Modern Library, ed. 1951), Chapter 5, Page 143
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William Faulkner (Absalom, Absalom! Quotes)
  • Book: Absalom, Absalom!
  • Writer: William Faulkner
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
  • Published: 1936
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