“The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsid-eration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive; we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.”
Philip Roth
more infosource: American Pastoral (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997), 35.
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category: judgment, living, right, wrong
medium: fiction
via: Nellie Perera“The time to make up your mind about people is never.”
Katharine Hepburn
more infosource: The Philadelphia Story, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (1940). Screenplay written by Donald Ogden Stewart (and Waldo Salt, uncredited); original play written by Philip Barry.
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category: film quotes, judgment, never, open mind, prejudice
medium: film
notes: line delivered by Katharine Hepburn, playing the character Tracy Lord
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