"A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak."

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Source : Tom Wolfe (2002). “The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel”, p.283, Macmillan

Tom Wolfe

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“If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.”
“You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?”
“When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.”

Source : Dennis Genpo Merzel (1991). “The Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen”, Shambhala Publications
“We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench”
“The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the purer and richer blood of the blacks, they will die out and wither away in unprolific skinniness.”
“God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.”
“Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.”
“Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”

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