Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

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...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor,...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor,...

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The...

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The...

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor...

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

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.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...