"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth."

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Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.45, Hachette UK

Ally Carter

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Hazards Quotes

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”
“But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.”
“I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.”
“I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.”
“Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.”

Source : Demetra George, Douglas Bloch (2003). “Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology, and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine”, p.18, Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
“And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.”
“Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.”
“Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.”

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