Vanishing cream for the mind, English writer Jeremiah Creed on calls it. It's beholding the mote in your brother's eye, says the Bible, while disregarding the beam in your own. Denial is refusing to listen to the voice that awakens you in the night and whispers, "You know, you really are an incredible jerk, and you ought to do something about

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