"I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most."

-- Susanna Clarke

#Lying Quotes #Magic Quotes #Magician Quotes

“The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.”
“Way back in 1979, as a guest on a local TV show in Arkansas, then Hillary Rodham was quizzed about not taking her husband's last name when they got married and keeping her job as a lawyer while being first lady of the state.”
“When I am in the battlefield, I love it more then my wedding night with the most beautiful of women”
“When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.”
“Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.”
“I think Rowdy Gaines actually said something like: Katie Ledecky doesn't swim like a man. She swims like Katie Ledecky.And that was a good comment. I swim the way I swim. And I take it as a compliment when somebody says I swim like a man, because, as you said, my stroke is kind of taken after what some of the male freestylers have done. But I'm just trying to go as fast as I can go.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”

Source : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
“Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.”

Source : Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.

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