"About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Lying Quotes #Poet Quotes #Tempted Quotes

“This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.”
“One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

Source : "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
“Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.”

Source : Andrew Boorde (1936). “The wisdom of Andrew Boorde”
“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.18
“I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out”
“When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.”
“I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.”

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