"It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian."

-- John Updike

#Lying Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Deceit Quotes

“The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.”
“How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you're good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier. As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.”
“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

Source : "Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.
“I love black truffles. I love white truffles.”
“I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.”
“I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.”
“She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan
“I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.”

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