"There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?"

-- Djuna Barnes

#Honesty Quotes #Liars Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.”
“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.”

Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1948). “That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments”
“I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.”
“Hopefully, I write what I don't know.”
“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.”
“Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.”
“Death by hanging... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.”

Source : "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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