"A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been."

-- Betty Smith

#Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes #Coward Quotes

“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
“Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is, and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrong-normally you wouldn't say, thank God I have gas.”
“Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.”
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.”

Source : Curtis L. Carter, Man Ray, Francis M. Naumann (1989). “Man Ray in America”
“...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.”
“The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.”
“When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.”

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