Jamere Banks Quotes & Sayings

But the lie had to be a good one, because if your lie is badly done it makes everyone feel wretched, liar and lied-to alike plunged into the deepest lackadaisy, and everyone just feels like going into the other room and drinking a glass of water, or whatever is available there, whereas if you can lie really well then get dynamite results, 35 percent report increased intellectual understanding, awareness, insight, 40 percent report more tolerance, acceptance of others, liking for self, 29 percent report they receive more personal and more confidential information from people and that others become more warm and supportive toward them
all in consequence of a finely orchestrated, carefully developed untruth. — Donald Barthelme

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it. — Liam Perrin

On October 7, 1950, the enemy attacked the Tibetan frontier in six places simultaneously. — Heinrich Harrer

I listen to a radio segment about scientists measuring the radioactive decay after such large-scale catastrophes as September 11 or the 2003 tsunami in Indonesia. It turns out that nuclear decay, which is, if not a constant, as close to such a thing as we can get, inexplicably increases after these events. As if contingent matter echoed or shadowed or even shared our sufferings (and our joys?). As if creation itself cried out with us. — Christian Wiman

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now. — Billy Joel

This guilt is a joke, and it's exhausting to watch you martyr yourself. — Ann Aguirre

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church. — J. Oswald Sanders