"The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring."

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Source : Josephine Tey (1995). “The Daughter of Time”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

Josephine Tey

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“Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.”

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“I try to be as intentional as possible.”

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“The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.”
“This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.”
“Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.”

Source : "Fictional character: Noah Cross". "Chinatown", www.imdb.com. 1974.
“Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.”
“Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.”

Source : Jennifer Chiaverini (2012). “The Sugar Camp Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.”

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