“A memoir is a history,” he said. “It’s a story with a debt, a debt to the past. You pay the debt in the coin of truth.”
“Hmmm,” I said, nodding thoughtfully but noncommittally.
(Eric Kraft, On the Wing, p. 156)
“One thing I’ve learned since I was born / that I must die since I was born” (Robert Filliou)
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