You have to learn to take the bitter with the sour.
—Advice given to Billy Wilder by Samuel Goldwyn
Almost everybody is familiar with the George Santayana quote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s from The Life of Reason, Santayana’s chronicle of how the mind works. But memorable quotes are like photographs—stripped of context. What came before and goes after them has been shorn away; they stand naked and alone.
