"Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity."

-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Secret Quotes #Deformity Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.”
“The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.”
“It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.”
“No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.”
“The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.”
“Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.”
“You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.”
“I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.”

Source : Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.241, Faber & Faber

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