Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.
You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption. ' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Survival is a growth strategy.
And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.
The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.