the rough edges QUOTES

1 " A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, and perhaps that is why they went out in the first place. When the rough edges are worn off the new land, businessmen and lawyers come in to help with the development---to solve problems of ownership, usually by removing the temptations to themselves. And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. And culture can be on any level, and is.

The Church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. "

― John Steinbeck , East of Eden

2 " Life Lesson 8: Change is always hard, but time softens the rough edges and eases the pull of the past. Eventually, we all climb out from under the bed, and even the most unfamiliar places begin to feel like home. "

― Patti Davis , Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats

3 " Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth. "

― Nina George , The Little Paris Bookshop

4 " Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world. "

― Sanober Khan

5 " Never talk to waiters like that," Kit said." Can I help it," he said, " if I only went one year to finishing school?" " It isn't manners," she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy, " it just isn't smart." I thought of the time I first told him not to say ain't. He took this the same way, a little peeved but making mental notes. I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion. I was beginning to see what Kit had for Sammy. Of course she stood for something never within his reach before. But it was more than that. Sammy seemed to know that his career was entering a new cycle where polish paid off. You could almost see him filing off the rough edges against the sharp blade of her mind. "

6 " I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason.
Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death.
But Moses’s pictures dripped with life and reminded us of our loss. "

― Amy Harmon , The Law of Moses (The Law of Moses, #1)

7 " Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. "