Lucinda Roy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.
-- Lucinda Roy -
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.
-- Lucinda Roy
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It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
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The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.
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