My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated – every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young. — Mark Helprin
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Mark Helprin : American Novelist
Born: June 28, 1947
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagin…
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there w…
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is d…
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, fl…
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still …
The war correspondent has his stake – his life – in his own …
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagin…
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there w…
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is d…
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, fl…
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still …
The war correspondent has his stake – his life – in his own …
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his …
I’m crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his scienc…
I’m a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions …
I think that even though my father wasn’t there, in his deat…
My father always had people around the house who were famous…
I’m an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wi…
My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his …
I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always ta…
When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In th…
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as …
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I go…
It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakes…
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious …
I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his …
