We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
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Jessamyn West
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
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.
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.
Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don__ have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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 grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Groan and forget it.
Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.