"It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you."

-- Alice Hoffman

#Distance Quotes #Lying Quotes #Problem Quotes

“You have to find something you relate to in every character.”
“We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.”
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”
“I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.”
“No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.”
“I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.”
“California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.”
“Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.”

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