"The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody."

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Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Alice Adams”, p.247, Booklassic

Booth Tarkington

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“When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.”
“...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22”
“Whoever, however close to me you may be. Nobody can change my emotions. Even if I am sad it's my own problem, not somebody else's.”
“Never doubt what comes from the heart, your feelings know you better than anything else.”
“If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.”
“There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spotâ€¦' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.”
“Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.”
“It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.25, A&C Black

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