Lucinda Roy quotes
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“If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.”
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“My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.”
-- Lucinda Roy
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Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.
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“The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.”
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“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
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“The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.”
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