"Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does."

-- Anne Tyler

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“To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.”
“Never fire a laser at a mirror.”

Source : Larry Niven (1984). “Niven's Laws”, Owlswick Press
“We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.”
“I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.”

Source : Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.
“It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.”
“Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.”
“There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.”

Source : Newsweek, March 25, 1979.
“I don't eat green things, no vegetables.”

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