Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
~ Jessamyn West
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
