"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed."

-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Lying Quotes #Fall Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Today's business climate is not for me.”
“You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.”
“Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.”
“Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.”

Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.233
“... both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ...”

Source : Dorothy Gilman (1967). “Uncertain Voyage”
“What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.”
“I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.”
“Any time is the time to make a poem.”

Source : Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.162, Vintage

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