"One can lie, but truth is more interesting."

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Source : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

Enid Bagnold

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, ***** mind.”

Source : ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”
“There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.”
“Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.”
“Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.253
“In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.”
“The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.”
“I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.”
“The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.”

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