Word foods for thought suppers

Iceberg Theory

If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. 

 —Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon ^[4]

 ^{This one empitomizes, I think, most quagmires of circumstance:}

“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.”

― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces