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.
From Jessamyn West
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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.
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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