"There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living."

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Source : Shelagh Delaney (1963). “Sweetly Sings the Donkey”

Shelagh Delaney

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“Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.”
“If I even tell anything false, within one minute I have to come clean. And I think most people, even if they're not that direct, it comes out in indirect ways. If somebody cheats on you, they end up telling you they've been spending all this time hanging out with that person. Why? Because nobody can bear a lie. A lie won't stay silent. It makes noise.”

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“Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.”

Source : William Hogarth (2013). “Engravings by Hogarth”, Courier Corporation
“All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.”
“Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.”
“I love acting and I hope I'm fortunate enough to get good, interesting roles and I hope directors and producers will keep giving me the opportunity to act as I really love doing this.”
“Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.”
“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.”

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