"Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once."

-- Anais Nin

#Writing Quotes #Duplicity Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.”

Source : "Daring Talk: Orange is the New Black". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 22, 2013.
“My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair â€” things Iâ€™m so very grateful for now.”
“The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.”
“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.”
“Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.”
“...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists......Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as the white race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.”

Source : "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.
“The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?”

Source : "The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations". Book by K Kris Hirst, 2016.
“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.”

Source : Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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