"to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life."

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Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

Ellen Glasgow

#Literature Quotes #Honest Quotes #Being Honest Quotes

“I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car.”
“I lost my head/when I found my heart.”
“Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.”
“The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. Acknowledging the role of molecules that have stereoisomers, some the mirror image of the others, and microorganisms whose chemistry prefers only one of those forms.”
“The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.”
“It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.”

Source : Darrell Huff (1993). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company
“Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.”
“I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.”

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