"What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world."

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Source : Patrick Marber (2004). “Plays 1: Dealer's choice ; After Miss Julie ; Closer”, A&C Black

Patrick Marber

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“The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.”
“I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?”
“What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, thestake.org. January 30, 2014.
“The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the point of view of the customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience.”
“Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude”

Source : Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr
“Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.”
“Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.”
“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”

Source : "The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations" by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan Paul Siegel, (p. 424), 1993.

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