"You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies."

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Source : Suzette Haden Elgin (1984). “Native Tongue”, p.284, Feminist Press at CUNY

Suzette Haden Elgin

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes

“When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.”
“You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.”
“I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.”
“Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.”
“A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.”
“A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.”
“Life is a gamble, we scramble for money, I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.”

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