"There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats."

-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Thinking Quotes #Deceit Quotes #Misery Quotes

“I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.”

Source : Ralph Connor (1900). “Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks”, New York ; Toronto : F.H. Revell Company
“I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.”

Source : "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Monogamous with Zak Orth". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.
“The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies”
“Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.”
“Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.”

Source : 'Hansard' 3 February 1969, col. 88
“Free love is too expensive.”
“When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and in the theatre, seemed to come together as a director, and I began to enjoy it. And slowly I let the acting go.”

Source : "Epiphanies: George Ogilvie, Director and Pilgrim". "The Spirit of Things", www.abc.net.au. December 3, 2006.
“A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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