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Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also..either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths. John Steinbeck
J. M. Barrie quote: ""She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a..."
"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles. J. M. Barrie
I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before the crime and a beautiful set of marks which could only have come there between two and three in the morning, but this being real life in a London November, you might as well expect footprints in Niagara. I searched the roofs right along—and came to the jolly conclusion that any person in any... Dorothy L. Sayers
John Webster quote: "What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were..."
What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no use. But only to show his teeth. John Webster
She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did. John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote: "Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your..."
Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing? Frank Herbert
I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there Hilary Swank
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook! Nora Ephron
William Shakespeare quote: "To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when..."
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still. William Shakespeare
Pat Conroy quote: "There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make..."
There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art. Pat Conroy
Oscar Wilde quote: "There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode..."
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. Oscar Wilde
Alain de Botton quote: "Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year..."
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough. Alain de Botton
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. Alan Moore
In this abundant earth no doubt. Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough. We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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