Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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MATTHEW DESMOND You never know how crazy a person is...until they tell you their nightmares. EMILY DESMOND When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by... MATTHEW DESMOND I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. I... MATTHEW DESMOND These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure or... MATTHEW DESMOND I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that... MATTHEW DESMOND it has been shown off, concealed, styled, cut, trimmed, extended, straightened, waved, put up, let d... DESMOND MORRIS No matter how old we become, we can still call them "Holy Mother" and "Father" and put a child-like ... DESMOND MORRIS I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape DESMOND MORRIS As potential areas for body decoration the buttocks provide little scope. They are too private for d... DESMOND MORRIS CNS just fixes computers. We try to do the best of our ability to fix student computers. DESMOND MORRIS What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity. DESMOND LLEWELYN I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in the... MATTHEW DESMOND If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely... DESMOND BAGLEY Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility. MATTHEW DESMOND Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're ... MATTHEW DESMOND Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of the... MATTHEW DESMOND When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much ... MATTHEW DESMOND If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dy... MATTHEW DESMOND Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. PAUL DESMOND Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a bus... MATTHEW DESMOND The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Amon... MATTHEW DESMOND You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potenti... MATTHEW DESMOND Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provo... MATTHEW DESMOND Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spen... MATTHEW DESMOND Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions a... MATTHEW DESMOND If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a la... MATTHEW DESMOND I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's... MATTHEW DESMOND Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either ... MATTHEW DESMOND It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I ... RICHARD DESMOND I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o... DESMOND LACHMAN Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but... DESMOND DEKKER When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a hec... MATTHEW DESMOND