"When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios."

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Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

Margery Allingham

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.”
“Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
“They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.”
“It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.”

Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
“The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.314, Ballantine Books
“If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.”
“New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.”
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

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