"Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable."

-- William McIlvanney

#Lying Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The evil that we know is best.”
“Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.”
“If youâ€™re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then donâ€™t do it at all.”
“At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.”

Source : John Berger (2011). “A Painter of Our Time”, p.168, Vintage
“There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.”
“There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.”
“Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.”
“I only write when listening to the music.”

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