“A ver… ¿qué es lo mío? Supongo que engañar, mentir, sobrevivir. Sí, esto es lo mío, esto es lo que yo sé hacer.”
Source: El retorno de Gryal
“Séamus’s eyebrows, like the antennae of the potato beetle but with a greater sense of grievance, poke forward as he delivers his first utterance of the morning.”
Source: Karna's Wheel
“We stood for a moment, the brackish canal water teething at the stone,the last of the stars fading as the sky transformed from black to indigo. A pair of swans like large white clouds floated on the water, their heads tucked under their wings, as a gondola pulled up, a lantern on the prow, the gondolier on the stern, rubbing his sleepy eyes.”
“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“The trouble is, that this sort of things once it starts, grows.”
Source: The Moving Finger
“Don't be quick to believe the bad things you hear about good people. Everyone has a story left untold.”
Source: The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities
“In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from its grotesque, hypocritical Puritan heritage, do we persist in attempting to deny and repeal a million years of basic primate biology.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“فضائح الناس تسعدنا لأنها تشغلهم عنا”
Source: قالوا
“Americans became desensitized to scandalous revelation, whether it involved sex or drug use or cheating on a college exam. You could disappoint us, certainly, but we were now a very hard country to shock.”
Source: All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
“Meantime, new thoughts came to the nation: the inevitable period of moral retrogression and political trickery that ever follows in the wake of war overtook us. So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable. Men began to pride themselves on having nothing to do with their own government, and to agree tacitly with those who regarded public office as a private perquisite.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk