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Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.


Graydon Carter

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ALLY CARTER Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
ALLY CARTER A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It...
JIMMY CARTER I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align...
ANGELA CARTER There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with ...
ANGELA CARTER The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathet...
ANGELA CARTER We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the Pres...
JIMMY CARTER According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge...
JIMMY CARTER I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I ...
JIMMY CARTER Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford a...
JIMMY CARTER You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
JIMMY CARTER Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
LILLIAN CARTER Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including t...
ANGELA CARTER I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
JIMMY CARTER I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they do...
JOE CARTER