Clifford Irving quotes

“I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.”
-- Clifford Irving

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“I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.”
-- Clifford Irving

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“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
-- Clifford Irving

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.”

“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.”

“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”

“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.”

“Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.”

“For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.”

Source : Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.335, Aeterna Press

“I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.”

Source : "He was called "The Experiment": Nobody believed that a human being could be so strong!". www.telegraf.rs. March 20, 2015.

“Train hard, fight easy.”

Source : "The Art of Victory" by Alexander Suvorov, New York, 1965.

“If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.”