"We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent."
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"People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story."
"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."
"The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood."
"Never trust the teller, trust the tale."
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
"In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved."
"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."
"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust."
"Our distrust is very expensive."
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
"I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him."
"It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know."
"You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!"
"Believe everything you read"
"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."
"All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise."
"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
"If you don't trust the pilot, don't go."
"I don't trust him. We're friends."