Still Pictures Quotes

“Most of what happens to us goes unremembered. The events of our life are like photographic negatives. The few that make it into the developing solution and become photographs are what we call our memories.”
― Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

“I wonder whether a lot of us, perhaps most of us, only pretend to be interested in the answers to the questions we ask, and whether the word "empathy" refers to a performance rather than to a feeling.”
― Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

“All happy families are alike in the pain their members helplessly inflict upon one another, as if under orders from a perverse higher authority.”
― Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

“The lives of great artists and thinkers and statesmen are like the lives of the great extinct species, the tyrannosaurs and stegosaurs, while the lives of the obscure can be likened to extinct species of beetles.”
― Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

“Most of what happens to us goes unremembered. The events of our lives are like photographic negatives. The few that make it into the developing solution and become photographs are what we call our memories.”
― Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

“Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser.”
― Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

“La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas.”
― Janet Malcolm, Fotografías fijas: Memoria en imágenes