"Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?"

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Source : Josephine Tey (1998). “A Shilling for Candles”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

Josephine Tey

#Thinking Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.”
“I wonâ€™t react to something just because Iâ€™m supposed to, because Iâ€™m an African-American”
“If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.”
“Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.”
“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.”

Source : "Play for today" by Pat Kane, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.
“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

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