"Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?"

-- John Dos Passos

#Lying Quotes #Wings Quotes #People Quotes

“In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.”
“My comfort zone is press conferences.”
“Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.”
“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”
“Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
“I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.”
“Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.”

Source : "Randomness and Complexity: From Leibniz to Chaitin". Book edited by Cristian S. Calude, 2007.
“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.”

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