Dorinne Ducasse Quotes & Sayings

... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370) — Alex London

All lies fall somewhere into these five categories. These are to: avoid hurting someone; avoid feeling guilt or shame; avoid conflict and stress (minor to major); gain a social advantage; avoid a significant loss. — Caesar Lincoln

Everyone makes mistakes... — Anonymous

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Dickens had, with all his genius, the narrow short sight of his day and class, sentimental tears for poverty but no vision to remove it except by inviting everybody to be as noble a fellow as himself. War — Stephen Leacock

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing ... for the managers ... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'. — Robert A. Heinlein

Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's not our reason. I think that most of us read these stories that we know are not 'true' because we're hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. — Orson Scott Card

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much — Anonymous

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother. — Michel Templet

The best stories infuse wonder, — Andrew Stanton

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person. — Marianne Faithfull