“It Isn’t Always Fun.” – First Things
Primum
“Primam non nocere.”“First, do no harm. “
Hippocrates
Secundus
“The undocumented life is not worth living.”
With apologies to Socrates
Tertius
Avoid the customary sins of memoirs — “self justification, an unwillingness to credit colleagues, an abject bitterness toward all that comes after . . .”
David Remick, reviewing Gorbachev’s memoirs
Quatrius
“. . . there is no fixed history, no history that is true. There are stories that we tell from our history, and we tell them well or we tell them ill.”
Jill Ker Conway in “Point of Departure”