"Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes."

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Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.161, Hachette UK

Joe Abercrombie

#Lying Quotes #Irrelevance Quotes #People Quotes

“Time, on its own, heals nothing.”

Source : Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.186, Counterpoint
“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”
“The biggest family in the world is my fans.”
“Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.”
“The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field.”

Source : "Steve Spurrier quit after Gamecocks started 'going south'", www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2015.
“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.”
“Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!”
“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”

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