"There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two."

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Chris Cleave

#Mean Quotes #Two Quotes #Differences Quotes

“My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Prayer,' when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.”
“I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me.”
“All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed drinking - it is impossible to think of a person who enjoys drinking and not laughing. He enjoyed women - it is difficult to think of a man who enjoys women and not laughing. He was friendly, almost in love, with a prostitute, Mary Magdalene. It is difficult to move with a prostitute - he was not moving with a Catholic monk, not with a priest, not with the Pope... with a prostitute! These were the condemnations against him.”
“We tend to make up the people we fall in love with”

Source : Joyce Johnson (2014). “Bad Connections: A Novel”, p.34, Open Road Media
“Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your ***** are like Chinese New Year fireworks.”
“It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining. I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody counter.”
“I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the more particularly if this is to be based on bureaucratic views of what is good and what is bad by way of industrial development. An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands.”

Source : "Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council", (p. 116), October 9, 1970.
“I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.”

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