"Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.”
“I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.”

Source : "Yesterday's Screen Heartbreaker Tina Munim, Now Ambani, Turns 60". Interview with Khalid Mohamed, www.thequint.com. November 2, 2017.
“It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. Â No one is born with that skill. Â It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. Â And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.”
“Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.”
“I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.”

Source : Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.”

Source : "Erland Josephson obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.

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