Daniel Kahneman Quotes

When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Memory narrativises itself.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

What does it remember like?

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.