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“A conscious understanding of the kind of cloth we wear, each moment of time, makes us be aware of what we must do or what we should never think of doing because of the cloth we wear!”
“I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.”
“Elliot had always thought that touch was the most intimate way a man and a woman could connect. A kiss. A hand across the base of the neck or a brush of fingertips against the small of the back. Bu...”
“We all should practice to tell the truth and keep our promises, rather than trying to calculate possible pleasures, pains, and outcomes of our sayings in certain circumstances. Because we know that...”
“Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.”
“To admit what you see endangers principles.”
“If you want to be a thought leader, market leader, or change the world - you have to give up the need to be liked. Telling people what they want to hear makes you popular. Telling people what they ...”
“Keep your honesty as earth inside.Keep your focus as fire inside.Keep your determination as water inside.Keep your passion as blood inside.Most importantly keep love as it transcends all.At last ke...”
“Be honest first with yourself before with others since that changes the world.”
“[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a fals...”
“Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you. Honest.”
“People might say that they liked honesty, but they didnt, really.”
“The truth is not what it seems, but what it is.”
“Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of...”
“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.”
“I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.”
“I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at which one can afford to let everything go hang. One has got to damn the public, chance one's living, ...”
“I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst way. Submissive. Dependent. Soft spoken. Coquettish. I was no good at all at any of it, no good at ...”
“Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?”
“All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness.”
