"The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment."

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Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

Elizabeth Aston

#Lying Quotes #Spurs Quotes #Details Quotes

“People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.”
“A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.”
“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”
“Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.”
“I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.”
“God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.”
“The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.”

Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.131, Random House
“When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.”

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