"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

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Source : H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

H. L. Mencken

#Success Quotes #Truth Quotes #Liars Quotes

“I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace,”
“If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?”
“If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.”

Source : "Comic-Con 2011: 'The Big Bang Theory's' Kunal Nayyar (Q&A)" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 06, 2011.
“Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.”
“I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.”
“I never really felt like I belonged in California.”
“And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.”
“I think with success you do get a little more guarded and you start to change your friends. You become more isolated. And you start hanging around with people who have money! I think that's the biggest thing. Once you do get a bit of change in your pocket, you start hanging around with other people who have some change. It was kind of strange to all of a sudden go from one extreme-Manhattan-to where I went, upstate New York. But I did it because I was dying in the city. I couldn't take it. I couldn't take one more dinner party. I couldn't take one more party, period.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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