"You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind."

Morality, Trust, Honesty, Deception

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"You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind."

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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

Movies, Books, Years

"I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told."

Time, Idea, Being, Folk

"I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay."

Joy, Pain, Will

"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."

Love, Will

"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold."

Love, Men, Women, Deep

"I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes."

Growth, Growingup, Kids

"Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!"

Work, Children, Now

"I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life."

Life, Love, Fiction, Risk

"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."

Reading, Read

"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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