"It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves."

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Source : FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Aug 10, 2016

Claire Messud

#Lying Quotes #Fall Quotes #People Quotes

“I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.”
“If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.”
“A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.”
“As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'”
“Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.”
“I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.”
“In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.”
“Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.”

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