Memory is a thriller novel by American writer Donald E. Westlake, published posthumously in April 2010. The novel was written in 1963 and was shopped to publishers by Westlake's then-agent, Scott Meredith, but none of them bought it despite editors praising the novel. In the late 1970s, Westlake's agent, Henry Morrison, thought he could sell the novel, but Westlake declined the offer claiming it was "too dated". The manuscript for Memory was found among Westlake's papers shortly after his death on December 31, 2008. Hard Case Crime bought Memory in 2009, then believed to be the Westlake's final unpublished manuscript, and published it in 2010. The novel was adapted into the upcoming film The Actor, directed by Duke Johnson and starring André Holland as lead character Paul Cole. Plot Actor Paul Cole lost his memory after being violently attacked by a jealous husband who caught Paul with his wife. Stranded in a small town and hounded by police, Paul struggles to recover his identity under the watchful hostile eye of the police and get back home to New York to reclaim the life he's lost.

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Notable quotes

“Anyone who’s taken statements from multiple witnesses to the same event will know how malleable memory is.”
— Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (2018), , p. 83.
“We are all the sum of our memories, after all.”
— Genevieve Cogman, The Untold Story (2021), , Chapter 24 (p. 337)
“I collaborated on a brain imaging study in 2010, and the overwhelming conclusion we reached is that the neural patterns were very similar for true and false memories. We are a long way away from being able to look at somebody's brain activity and reliably classify an authentic memory versus one that arose through some other process.”
— Elizabeth Loftus as interviewed in Alison George "I could have sworn...Why you can’t trust your memory", New Scientist, (8/21/2013).
“Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet , c. 1601, Act III, scene 2, line 137.
“Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.”
— Stefan Zweig, The Post Office Girl, 1982.
“Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.”
— These who have ensured their remembrance by their deserts.

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Memory is a thriller novel by American writer Donald E. Westlake, published posthumously in April 2010. The novel was written in 1963 and was shopped to publishers by Westlake's then-agent, Scott Meredith, but none of them bought it despite editors praising the novel. In the late 1970s, Westlake's agent, Henry Morrison, thought he could sell the novel, but Westlake declined the offer claiming it was "too dated". The manuscript for Memory was found among Westlake's papers shortly after his death on December 31, 2008. Hard Case Crime bought Memory in 2009, then believed to be the Westlake's final unpublished manuscript, and published it in 2010.

Overview

Memory is a thriller novel by American writer Donald E. Westlake, published posthumously in April 2010. The novel was written in 1963 and was shopped to publishers by Westlake's then-agent, Scott Meredith, but none of them bought it despite editors praising the novel. In the late 1970s, Westlake's agent, Henry Morrison, thought he could sell the novel, but Westlake declined the offer claiming it was "too dated". The manuscript for Memory was found among Westlake's papers shortly after his death on December 31, 2008. Hard Case Crime bought Memory in 2009, then believed to be the Westlake's final unpublished manuscript, and published it in 2010. The novel was adapted into the upcoming film The Actor, directed by Duke Johnson and starring André Holland as lead character Paul Cole. Plot Actor Paul Cole lost his memory after being violently attacked by a jealous husband who caught Paul with his wife. Stranded in a small town and hounded by police, Paul struggles to recover his identity under the watchful hostile eye of the police and get back home to New York to reclaim the life he's lost.

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Notable quotes

“Anyone who’s taken statements from multiple witnesses to the same event will know how malleable memory is.”
— Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (2018), , p. 83.
“We are all the sum of our memories, after all.”
— Genevieve Cogman, The Untold Story (2021), , Chapter 24 (p. 337)
“I collaborated on a brain imaging study in 2010, and the overwhelming conclusion we reached is that the neural patterns were very similar for true and false memories. We are a long way away from being able to look at somebody's brain activity and reliably classify an authentic memory versus one that arose through some other process.”
— Elizabeth Loftus as interviewed in Alison George "I could have sworn...Why you can’t trust your memory", New Scientist, (8/21/2013).
“Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet , c. 1601, Act III, scene 2, line 137.
“Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.”
— Stefan Zweig, The Post Office Girl, 1982.
“Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.”
— These who have ensured their remembrance by their deserts.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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