"The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream."
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"Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good."
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"Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children."
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"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."
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"the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies."
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"Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John."
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"You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar."
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"If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass."
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"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."
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"When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do."
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"There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men."
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"The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members."
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"You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es"
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"The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics."
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"Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there."
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"All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth."
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"I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned."
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"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
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"And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it."
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"The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion."
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