"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."
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise — when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?"
"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"
"We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?"
"I never meet anyone nowadays who admits to having had a happy childhood. Everyone appears to think happiness betokens a lack of sensitivity."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
"Teaching is the royal road to learning."
"Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary."
"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 gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t 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."
"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."
"Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive."
"Groan and forget it."
"If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one."