“Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.” PeopleArtDifferentEffortSeeingMy Friends Author:Lucy Grealy
“I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.” ThinkingKnowsHardWisdomWould BeTruthRememberUsedForeverKnowingSawsOur LivesSeeingHard WorkEternalConstantInherentMeasurementBasicsLife LearningBasic Things Book:Autobiography of a Face Source: Autobiography of a Face