"Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition."

-- Walker Percy

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Human Condition Quotes

“Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.”
“You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?â€ called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. â€œAbove such brutality, are you?â€ â€œWe both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom,â€ Dumbledore said calmly. â€œMerely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit â€”â€ â€œThere is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!â€ snarled Voldemort. â€œYou are quite wrong,â€ said Dumbledore, speaking as lightly as though they were discussing the matter over drinks. â€œIndeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness..”
“There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.”
“The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.”
“I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.”

Source : "Let’s Renew VAWA Today" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.
“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”
“All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'”

Source : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.19, The Overlook Press
“To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.”

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