"But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking ..."

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Source : Margery Sharp (2016). “Britannia Mews: A Novel”, p.81, Open Road Media

Margery Sharp

#Truth Quotes #Way Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.”
“We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.”
“The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.”
“Welcome to the degeneration of my mind.”
“There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.”
“I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”
“Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.”
“You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.”

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