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.
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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.
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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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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.
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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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?
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Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
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It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
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People who keep journals have life twice.
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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
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