"Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself."

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Margaret Atwood

#Mother Quotes #Lying Quotes #Jimmy Quotes

“Homosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more - sexually - that you can never actually receive, constantly full of emptiness, trying to justify your twisted actions by politics and â€˜feel goodâ€™ language.”
“Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.”

Source : "Fictional character: Gary Hobson". "Early Edition", www.imdb.com. 1996 - 2000.
“States Rights died at Appomattox.”
“En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.”
“God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.”
“It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.”
“My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.”

Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan
“Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Mar 05, 2013

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