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Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties
one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened. — Virginia Woolf

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out. — Kathe Kollwitz

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing — Graham Taylor

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one. — Elisha Cuthbert

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked ... — H.L. Mencken

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way. — Tom Wolfe

As commander in chief, I will not speak to Vladimir Putin until we've set up that no-fly zone; until we've gathered our Sunni-Arab allies and begun to deny ISIS territory; until I've called the supreme leader of Iran and told him new deal - new deal. We the United States of America are going to cut off the money flow, which we can do; which we don't need anyone's permission or collaboration to do. — Carly Fiorina

And then his mouth met mine and the taste of him was all I knew. I moaned, a wordless confession of my desire and complete willingness — Mia Sheridan

He had sinned mortally not once but many times and he knew that, while he stood in danger of eternal damnation for the first sin alone, by every succeeding sin he multiplied his guilt and his punishment. His days and works and thoughts could make no atonement for him, the fountains of sanctifying grace having ceased to refresh his soul. — James Joyce