"The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons."

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Source : 1988 Oscar and Lucinda, ch.43,'Leviathan'.

Peter Carey

#Real Quotes #Lying Quotes #Buttons Quotes

“Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.”
“I just always loved pinball.”

Source : "Kevin Dillon Talks ‘Entourage’ Ending, Keeping Johnny Drama Alive". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.
“I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.”
“Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.”
“I'm not politically correct.”
“I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.”
“We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.”
“A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.”

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