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Portrait of an Unknown Lady QUOTES

Portrait of an Unknown Lady QUOTES

1 " Memory edits things, colours them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever's needed to make the story work. "

― María Gainza , Portrait of an Unknown Lady

2 " Hay quienes creen que la memoria es un telescopio que puede capturar el pasado con tanta precision como el Hubble capturaba los Pilares de la Creacion, tan solo requiere un esfuerzo sostenido de concentracion y voluntad. Debe tener un buen agente de prensa la memoria porque en realidad, como instrumento de precision optica, no me parece mucho mas que un caleidoscopio de feria "

― María Gainza , Portrait of an Unknown Lady

3 " Memory must have a good PR agent, because in reality, as an instrument of optical precision, it seems to me little better than a fairground kaleidoscope. To reconstruct an experience on the basis of images stored in our brains at times borders on hallucination. We do not recover the past, we re-create it: an act of dramaturgy if ever there was one. Memory edits things, colors them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever’s needed to make the story work. "

― María Gainza , Portrait of an Unknown Lady