"The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same."

-- Bayard Taylor

#Perfection Quotes #Unattainable Quotes #Aim Quotes

“If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.”
“Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.”
“I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.”

Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
“Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.”
“I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.”
“What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.”
“One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.”
“If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.”

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