"Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self."

-- Nicholas Delbanco

#Lying Quotes #Self Quotes #Data Quotes

“These CEOs, man ... If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.”
“The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.”
“In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.”
“I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.”
“Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.”
“I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and canâ€™t quit.”
“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.”
“I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.”

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