"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right."

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Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.95, Macmillan

Shirley Hazzard

#Imagination Quotes #Facts Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'”
“Know that TODAY, and each and everyday literally becomes the BEST day of your life, when YOU choose to see that it is. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, it only matters what's going on inside of you.”
“There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.”
“I have a fear of failure.”
“I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.”
“I think that, in general, when you want to make a case, It important to be as clear and honest and persuasive as you can be about stating the opposite case, rather than attacking strawmen.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.”
“Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.”

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