Carlie Beth’s Reviews > Madonna in a Fur Coat > Status Update

“… I had yet to learn that nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjured up in our own minds”

“For even the most wretched and simpleminded man could be a surprise … … … Why are we so slow to see this, and why do we assume that it is the easiest thing in the world to know and judge another? Why, when we are reluctant even to describe a wedge of cheese, we are seeing for the first time, do we draw our final conclusions from our first encounters with people, and happily dismiss them?”