"Guilt soon learns to lie."

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Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1884). “Ishmael: A Novel”

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#Lying Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.”
“Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2007). “A Plea for Eros: Essays”, p.41, Macmillan
“There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.”
“People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.”
“I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.”
“Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!”

Source : 'The Starlight Night' (written 1877)
“We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.”
“Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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