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Diane Setterfield

"My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie."

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

Diane Setterfield

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“Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
“Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.”
“I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.”
“It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.”
“To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.”
“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”

Source : Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
“That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.”
“Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.”

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