A Quote by Peter Hessler

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

Peter Hessler

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Basic China Easier Forgiveness Involves Life Much Permission Regulations Than Truths

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Peter Hessler
American - Writer
Born: June 14, 1969

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Kate Brian

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

Libba Bray

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Bill Bowerman

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

Lora Leigh

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.