"Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost."

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Source : Anita Shreve (1999). “Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Anita Shreve

#Lying Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Lost Quotes

“As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.”
“Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.”
“In volume and velocity, the new media are making available testimony on a previously unimaginable scale. I'm neither as romantic about the new media landscape, nor cynical. But what's indisputable is the experimental energy that digital forms are unleashing. Among my students and among up-and-coming artists, I find myself startled by the creative responses to the technological, environmental, and political upheavals of our time.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.”
“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
“What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.”

Source : "We Are Spartacus" by Kirk Douglas, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.
“It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.”

Source : Stephen Harrigan (2015). “Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef”, p.153, University of Texas Press
“Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.”

Source : John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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