38. “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”– Emily Prentiss (Sir Walter Scott) 39. “Memory is a complicated thing, relative to truth but not its twin.”– Emily Prentiss (Mary Schafer) 40. “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our ...
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave / When first we practice to deceive!" -- Sir Walter Scott "Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people." -- Arab proverb "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit...
and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ~Annie Dillard,The Writing Life, 1989 ...