"Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down."

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Henri Frederic Amiel

#Disappointment Quotes #Drama Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Washington's a dangerous place.”

Source : "Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook". "The Lobbyist's Playbook" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. May 30, 2012.
“You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.”
“I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.”
“As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.”
“In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing to encounter such serious and sustained attention to the building blocks of inquiryâ€”and to the responsibilities thereby incurred. Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinowâ€™s other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal.”
“I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.”
“Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.”
“You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.”

Source : David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.138, Egmont UK

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