"Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between oneâ€™s words and oneâ€™s soul."

-- Richard Flanagan

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Journey Quotes

“Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.”
“I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.”
“No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didnâ€™t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesnâ€™t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.”

Source : "Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against'" by Tom Morello, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 2012.
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
“My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.”

Source : Smedley Butler's reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934.
“Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.”
“Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.”

Source : "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

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