I must trust my own recollections. I must also depend on the
recollections of others. Thus memory weighs heavily in what
I write, in how I begin and what I find to be significant
[...] But memories and recollections won't give me total
access to the unwritten interior life of these people.
Only the act of the imagination can help me.
--Toni Morrison, "The Site of Memory" (302)
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