Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
There is no thermometer for wants!
Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.