"He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule."

-- Rafael Trujillo

#Doe Quotes #Deceiving Quotes

“I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.”
“Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.”
“This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison”
“They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.”
“She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.”

Source : Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.237, Random House
“A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.”

Source : Thomas Nelson Page (2008). “John Marvel, Assistant”, p.354, Wildside Press LLC
“I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?”

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