“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.”
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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.
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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?
