"The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty."

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Gail Caldwell

#Honesty Quotes #Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.”
“A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.”
“Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity”
“I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.”
“If you do not learn English in this country, you cannot get anywhere. We are in America. We are not in Mexico, we are not in China, we are not in Saudi Arabia - we speak English in this country! And what bilingual education does, is keep them from learning English, so they are doomed to be second-class citizens.”
“The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.”

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“As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.”
“Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.”

Source : "Carmina". III. 6. 43,

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