"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."

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Source : Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

Tom Stoppard

#Witty Quotes #Truth Quotes #Honesty Quotes

“I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.”
“If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.”
“All work is the avoidance of harder work.”

Source : "2016 Poetry Month: An Interview With James Richardson". Interview with Jonathan Hobratsch, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2016.
“This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.”
“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”
“Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke!”
“I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.21, Penguin
“I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.”

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