That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
Author » Lessing, Doris
21 posts
What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.