"Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off."

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Source : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

Helen Waddell

#Truth Quotes #Onions Quotes #Coats Quotes

“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”
“This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.”
“I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.”
“Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.”
“The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.”

Source : Hugh Maclennan (2009). “Two Solitudes”, p.119, New Canadian Library
“The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.”
“I write novels and other things.”
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”

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