“Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)”
Source: Upon the Midnight Clear
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“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”
Misquote: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 302
Source: Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)
“All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
The Dance of the Hours
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)
“It never ceases to amaze me how often I ask people, “What do you really want?”
and they look at me blankly, unable to articulate the answer. It’s not that they don’t want things, it’s just that they don’t have a high level of clarity regarding the matter.”
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Variant: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata
“It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.”
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 73
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)