"But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself."

-- Ally Carter

#Lying Quotes #Artist Quotes #Con Artist Quotes

“One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.60
“There's some advice for the next generation. If there's a dream in your heart, never let anyone tell you you've got no talent. Get out there, embarrass yourself, and prove to the world you've got no talent. And then give up. 'Cause not everyone can be a genius like me.”
“It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.”
“I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite careful, quite difficult choices, but they don't make them without constraints that shape what choices are possible and provide the intensity of the push toward choosing.”
“They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.”
“The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”
“Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?”
“Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.98, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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