"To lie about a far country is easy"

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Guy de Maupassant

#Country Quotes #Lying Quotes #Easy Quotes

“School was not a place I enjoyed.”
“Nature has made nothing in vain.”

Source : Delarivier Manley (2017). “New Atalantis”, p.276, Routledge
“They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.309, Springer Science & Business Media
“It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.”
“It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”
“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”
“One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.”
“Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.”

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