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I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often goes aground; he is apt to be an artist before he is a scientist, and the impulse to create something passionately is stronger in him than the impulse to state something accurately.


H.L. Mencken


#misrepresentation #misunderstanding #men

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.


Criss Jami


#conditional #conditional-love #conflict #conscience #defense

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.


Criss Jami


#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.


Simone de Beauvoir


#cause #divide #love #means #misunderstandings

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.


Adrian Cronauer


#desecration #flag #free #free speech #fundamental

I'm a lion in a strange land.


Criss Jami


#awkwardness #beast #courage #different #earth

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.


Jane Austen


#defects #dislike #education #hatred #misunderstanding

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.


Kevin Brockmeier


#illusion #life #misunderstanding #personality #life

I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms. I wanted to, but I did not!


Faraaz Kazi


#mistakes #misunderstandings #sad #love

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.


Ben Marcus


#storytelling #respect






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