"Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage."

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Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

— Patricia Hampl