"Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late."

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Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

M. L. Stedman

#Snakes Quotes #Tangled Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.”
“A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.”
“No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough [great movies] to occupy us during all our short and busy years. If we are wise, we will resolutely avoid all but the richest and the best.”
“Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.”
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”

Source : William Cobbett's letter, February 10, 1804.
“It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”

Source : "The Talented Mr. Ripley", www.imdb.com. 1999.
“I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.”
“I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.”

Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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