
“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Giannina Braschi, in United States of Banana, 2011
“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.”
Source: Moving Pictures
Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.
Voces (1943)
Variant: That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate on life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
Source: Light (2002), Chapter 31 “I’ve Been Here” (p. 390)
“I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.”
Source: A Conspiracy of Kings