Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p. 193
When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown. . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.
