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Grandma Moses: What a strange...

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What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Source: Grandma Moses, My Life's History,(ed. Aotto Kallir, ch. 1.
-- Grandma Moses, (Sep 7 1860-1961), US folk painter; She started painting in her late 70s; best known for her documentary paintings of rural life.


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