"... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves"

-- Phyllis Bottome

#People Quotes #Want Quotes

“We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.”
“Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.”
“I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.”
“I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.”
“Undoubtedly we become what we envisage.”

Source : Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.22, Lulu.com
“The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.”
“Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.”

Source : Elizabeth Drew (2014). “Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall”, p.242, The Overlook Press
“The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower”

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