“Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
— Ayn Rand, book The Fountainhead
Variant: The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see
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