"Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you"

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Source : Dermot Healy (2016). “The Bend for Home”, p.64, Faber & Faber

Dermot Healy

#Lying Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.”
“For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”
“A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.”
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
“Team Hillary [Clinton] after everything came out the other night, they said, she just wants to talk about the issues. She wants to have a debate about the issues. Really, is that what their ads are about? Is that what the filth they peddle every day my candidate Donald Trump is about - they want to talk about the issues - lets talk about Obamacare its a disaster?”
“If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.”
“Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.”

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