"Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway."

-- Joseph O'Neill

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Deception Quotes

“It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.”
“Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.”
“Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'”
“I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.”
“Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.”
“If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.”
“I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”

Source : "Not the Greatest" by Robert Lipsyte, www.slate.com. November 9, 2011.

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