“To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”
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Wise Quotes — page 85 of 916
“Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.”
“People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.”
“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”
“Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.”
“Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.”
“My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.”
“I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.”
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
“You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.”
“We become what we habitually contemplate”
“You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.”
“You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.”
“The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.”
“Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.”
“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.”
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”
“Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.”