"I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with."

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Source : "Dangerous Liaisons". www.imdb.com. 1988.

Christopher Hampton

#Lying Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. This is why an explanation via design is not a legitimate alternative to scientific and other naturalistic modes of explanation. To refer to a miraculous cause is to refer to something that is inherently unknowable, and this sanctuary of ignorance explains nothing at all. However much it may soothe the imagination of the ignorant, it does nothing to satisfy the understanding of a rational person.”

Source : George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books
“Only through struggle, have I found rest.”
“I will say that I don't expect anybody to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. Or makes them feel like they're putting themselves in a bad position with their job.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns Briony's heart to stone. Pressure. Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.”
“I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.”

Source : Emily Rodda (1989). “The Pigs Are Flying”, Camelot
“If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.”
“Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator”
“You know, tigers are very unpredictable.”

Source : "Suraj Sharma, ‘Life Of Pi’ Star, Introduces Himself To The Rest Of The World". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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