Lisa Unger Quotes

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Lisa Unger

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• This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

  

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• There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

  

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• All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

  

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• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  

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• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

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• It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Different
  • Single
  • Present