Miss Prism: ‘Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.’
Cecily: ‘Yes, but it usually chronicles the things that have never happened, and couldn’t possibly have happened.’
(Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest)
This quote from Wilde catches something really important about our memory - …
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