"She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted."

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Source : Jeffery Deaver (2008). “The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

Jeffery Deaver

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Saws Quotes

“Sweet meat must have sour sauce.”
“Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?”

Source : Andrew Lang (2015). “The Yellow Fairy Book”, p.4, Booklassic
“In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most influential man. Even if he were to be remembered solely for his body of illustration work, heâ€™d still be one of the greats, but by opening the Kubert School in 1976, he was able to personally mentor and educate literally thousands of successful artists who owe their careers to his teachings.”
“Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.”
“Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.”
“A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.”
“The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.”
“I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.”

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