"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."

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Source : Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy, 1831.

Samuel Johnson

#Examination Quotes #Fraud Quotes #Dread Quotes

“God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.”
“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
“SÃ¬ is my tribute to modern femininity, an irresistible combination of grace, strength and independent spirit.”
“Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.”
“I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.”
“By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.”
“I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.”
“I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own termsâ€¦”

Source : "Group Therapy" by Jay McInerney, nymag.com.

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