Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Idealists and ridicule


Willa Cather, “The Best Years,” in The Old Beauty and Others (1948).

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6 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday, Dad! I love you!

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  2. I’m with the idealists here — stuff rolls right off me. : )

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  3. I have a friend who ALWAYS assumes good intentions (at least in the people she likes)--a kind of idealism I'd sometimes like to borrow.

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  4. Easy with people I like (which might help explain why they’re people I like), more difficult with, say, various people in the public eye.

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Play fair. Keep it clean. No potshots and no derailing. Thanks.

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