"No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that."

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Carlos Fuentes

#Want Quotes #Our Society Quotes #Deceiving Quotes

“The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.”
“Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.175, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
“Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jack Powell". "Jack", www.imdb.com. 1996.
“Good families are generally worse than any others.”

Source : Anthony Hope (2016). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.4, Xist Publishing
“So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!”
“I canâ€™t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.”
“...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!”
“But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.”

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