"Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies."

-- John Climacus

#Lying Quotes #Wine Quotes #Saint Quotes

“Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.”
“I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.”
“My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.”
“During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.”
“There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.”
“Very few of us are what we seem.”

Source : Agatha Christie (1995). “Partners in crime”
“Hereâ€™s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you donâ€™t even like â€” people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who arenâ€™t even alive anymore â€” to control your life? How long?”
“All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'”

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