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Quotes by Ashleigh Brilliant

Ashleigh Brilliant

“My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating”

“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story”

“My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about”

“Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings”

“I dont understand you. You dont understand me. What else do we have in common?”

“Its human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others”

“Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest”

“Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebodys way.”

“With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the worlds first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations”

“Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.”

“Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules”

“Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down”

“It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another”

“As long as I have you, there is just one other thing Ill always need - tremendous self-control”

“A library is a hospital for the mind”

“Those who think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colorblind”

“The truth may hurt for a little while but a lie hurts forever.”

“You take the lies out of him, and hell shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and hell disappear”

“Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds.”

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”