This is a masterful and heartbreaking film, and it does honor to the memory of the victims.
Memory Quotes
Memory has a small number of very good, well-sourced lines. Oscar Wilde, in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), calls it the diary we all carry about with us. William James, in The Principles of Psychology (1890), says that forgetting is as important a function of the intellect as recollecting. Ray Bradbury, in Long After Midnight (1976), says that God gives us dreadful gifts and the most dreadful is memory.
The flagged lines are the kind that circulate on social media. “Remember me with smiles and laughter” is credited to Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory” to Dr. Seuss, and a line about the sap in the trees carrying the memory of the red man to Chief Seattle. All three are marked misattributed.
An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory.
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
“The Eucharist has always carried the memory of Jesus’ meals with tax collectors and sinners.”
Of all the animals in creation, politicians have the shortest memories.
He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold.
Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.