In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
'Whenever you feel like criticising anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'
'Whenever you feel like criticising anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'
He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
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Pobres ...(el padre, el hijo -que siendo narrador de semajante historia demuestra el poco caso que le hizo a su santo padre- y todo el que al leerlo se lo crea)
Mira cuánto me costó a mí criticar o juzgar las cosas, pa que veas lo bien que se me da :D
El libro me encantó de todas formas, muchísimo más de lo que me esperaba. Lo acabaste ya? o vas poniendo cachos según lo vas leyendo? ya me contarás.
Medio beso
No veas la peli si no quieres que se te caiga todo el mito que tú te montas en tu cabeza.
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