"I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life."

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Source : Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.154, Penguin

Alison Goodman

#Lying Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #May Quotes

“She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.”
“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”

Source : Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
“It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.”

Source : "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.
“Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.”
“Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.”
“What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.”

Source : Sojourner Truth (1998). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth”, p.88, Penguin
“I am very proud of the fact that 20 years Â on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result ofÂ 'Meat is Murder'. â€œI think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.”
“Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.”

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