"Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions."

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Source : Jane Smiley (2010). “Duplicate Keys”, p.290, Anchor

Jane Smiley

#Lying Quotes #Wicked Quotes #Good Intentions Quotes

“Both force and money are impotent against ideas.”
“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”
“She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!”
“Except for Carrie Bradshaws in the opening credits of Sex and the City, I dont know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.”
“All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.”
“All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.”
“Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.”
“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”

Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Princess Casamassima'.

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