"A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it."

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Source : Paula Fox (2011). “A Servant's Tale: A Novel”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

Paula Fox

#Lying Quotes #Trying Quotes #Stories Quotes

“A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of a sheep”
“Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.”
“My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.”
“God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (â€œDisappearing Actâ€)”
“I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.”

Source : "PM Lee Hsien Loong 'Grieved Beyond Words' at Mr Lee Kuan Yew's Death" by Fiona Chan, www.straitstimes.com. March 23, 2015.
“The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.”
“I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there. And I loved it.”
“I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.”

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