"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."
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"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history."
"For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them."
"Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult."
"Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult."
"The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all."
"The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home."
"Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious."
"In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing."
"Learn to be difficult when it counts"
"It is very difficult to stop feeling."
"It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible."
"One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily."
"Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived."
"Sophomore records are historically really difficult."
"It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been."
"When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react."
"The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others."
"The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves."
"Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself."