The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.
In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.
It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.
When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years.
Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
