"Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days."

-- Rae Armantrout

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up ***** would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.
“I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.”
“If you make good music, people believe in you, but you have to have your websites poppin', you got to be on these blogs, you got to be at all these types of events. You got to be everywhere, and doing everything, and the more they see and hear you, the more chance you have at success.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.”

Source : Peter Straub (2015). “If You Could See Me Now”, p.131, Anchor
“The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.”

Source : Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.61, Counterpoint
“The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.”
“In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.”

Source : George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.17, Lulu.com
“My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.”

Source : Song: Snitches

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