"Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing."

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Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

Ernest Becker

#Lying Quotes #Trying Quotes #Desperate Quotes

“You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.”

Source : Speech to San Francisco Barristers' Club, San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 1968.
“Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.”
“God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.”
“If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.”
“Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.”
“The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.”
“I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.”
“You're less apprehensive when you know what to expect. Also, the first flight is very important in this performance-driven culture I work in; it establishes your reputation. If you don't do well, it's probably your last flight.”

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