"I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my pastâ€¦"

-- Tom Waits

#Lying Quotes #Past Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'”
“Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.”
“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
“Well, I'm against Bush. I'm definitely not pro-Bush. I think he's a maniac and a mad man, and I think he needs to go. As far as Kerry -- you know, I think that it really came down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, and unfortunately Bush won.”
“Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.”
“I hate it when she tabs a line," Ivy whispered to Kisten in the corner. "You ever see anything freakier than that?" "You should see the face she makes when sheâ€”" "Shut up, Kist!" I exclaimed, my eyes flashing open to find him grinning at me.”
“I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.230, Bantam
“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”

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