"Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?"

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Source : Anthony Ryan (2014). “Tower Lord”, p.310, Penguin

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“Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.”
“If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.”

Source : Odell Shepard (1930). “The Lore of the Unicorn”, p.92, Courier Corporation
“I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.”
“Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.”
“Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly changing. Every tool will be right for a different sort of situation, but in the end, it's going to be about your view, your voice, and how you put that all together.”
“The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.”
“I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.”
“Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.”

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