"The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth."

-- Clarence Darrow

#Children Quotes #Lying Quotes #Men Quotes

“A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown...”
“Win the game in your mind, before the starting whistle.”
“If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.”
“The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly is. Unfortunately, contemporary men and women simply do not value self-knowledge in the same way that all preceding generations have. For us technocratic knowledge reigns supreme. Even when we pursue self-knowledge, we all too often reduce it to a hedonistic search for personal peace and prosperity. How poor we are! Even the pagan philosophers were wiser than this generation. They knew that an unexamined life was not worth living.”
“The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.”
“The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.”
“Killing is the payoff of war.”
“If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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