"Yet still we hug the dear deceit."

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Source : Nathaniel Cotton (1791). “Various Pieces in Verse and Prose: Many of which Were Never Before Published”, p.166

Nathaniel Cotton

#Hug Quotes #Deceit Quotes #Dear Quotes

“Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.”
“I had the feeling I had to stay focused on what's lying under. A big part of the story in Toni Erdmann happens on the sub-level. On the surface, a lot of scenes, it's banal. If the actor starts thinking, "Oh, I'm in a genre, I'm doing a comedy, I'm doing funny things," then you lose.”
“I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.”
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
“The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.”
“I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.”
“This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1957). “Alfred Adler: a portrait from life”
“Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.”

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