“But it was a nice way of ignoring another simple truth – that people changed, with or without wars, and that we sometimes don’t know people as well as we think we do, that the worst errors in judgment often result from imagining we understand what has escaped us entirely.”

“But it was a nice way of ignoring another simple truth – that people changed, with or without wars, and that we sometimes don’t know people as well as we think we do, that the worst errors in judgment often result from imagining we understand what has escaped us entirely.”

— Richard Russo