"when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!"

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Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping With Strangers”, p.119, Penguin

Eric Jerome Dickey

#Honest Quotes #Betray Quotes #Honest With Yourself Quotes

“Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.”
“To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty”
“You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?”
“I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.”
“Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”
“Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.”
“The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.”
“It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.95, Wave Books

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