"It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying."

-- Marcel Proust

“Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon which the women paint their dreams.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”

Source : David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
“Every real story is a never ending story.”

Source : "The Neverending Story". Book by Michael Ende, September 1, 1979.
“Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.”
“When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to othersâ€”not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.”
“I always have faith that good things will happen regardless.”
“Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.”

Source : "In their own words". www.cnn.com. December 20, 1996.
“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.”

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