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Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

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Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

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Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?

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We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

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I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

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We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.