"The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth."

-- Edward St Aubyn

#Ideas Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes #Liberating Quotes

“Almost too hot for skinny jeans, the impossible becomes the possible.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 05, 2015
“One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.”
“I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.”
“If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.”
“The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.”
“When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.”
“When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”
“I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.”

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