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People do not like to lie outright. You may have read somewhere online that “the average human being tells 250 lies per day…” or something along those lines. It is not true. In fact, the average human being tells very few outright lies in
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“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me.
Codeine...bourbon..." (Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words).”
― Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead
Codeine...bourbon..." (Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words).”
― Tallulah, Darling: A Biography of Tallulah Bankhead
“Days to come stand in front of us
like a row of lighted candles—
golden, warm, and vivid candles.
Days gone by fall behind us,
a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles;
the nearest are smoking still,
cold, melted, and bent.
I don’t want to look at them: their shape saddens me,
and it saddens me to remember their original light.
I look ahead at my lighted candles.
I don’t want to turn for fear of seeing, terrified,
how quickly that dark line gets longer,
how quickly the snuffed-out candles proliferate.”
― The Collected Poems
like a row of lighted candles—
golden, warm, and vivid candles.
Days gone by fall behind us,
a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles;
the nearest are smoking still,
cold, melted, and bent.
I don’t want to look at them: their shape saddens me,
and it saddens me to remember their original light.
I look ahead at my lighted candles.
I don’t want to turn for fear of seeing, terrified,
how quickly that dark line gets longer,
how quickly the snuffed-out candles proliferate.”
― The Collected Poems
“The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”
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