"I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie."

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Source : Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.238, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Frank Portman

#Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes #Class Quotes

“I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.”
“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.”

Source : Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”
“Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?”
“It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.”
“I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought you said yer dewg did not bite! Inn Keeper: Zat . . . iz not my dog!”
“If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.”
“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

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