“I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.”
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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008Related quotes

“I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.”
Source: Anna Karenina

“There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.”

Letter to Richard Cobden (5 January 1864), quoted in The Life of William Ewart Gladstone Volume II (1903) by John Morley, p. 62
1860s

Interview with Bob Keppel days before his execution. audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QApVwP4AfY8

“What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.”
Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 599.