"Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Honesty Quotes #Skulls Quotes #Mask Quotes

“As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.”
“This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.”
“I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.”
“IÂ presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.”
“Yoga probably makes me a better person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. For now, though, he's okay. I can see him breathing. He just smells like he's dead.”
“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”
“But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.”

Source : Louise Penny (2009). “A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

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