Diane Ackerman Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

• A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lying, Together, Records

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

• The great affair, the love affair with life,
  is to live as variously as possible,
  to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
  climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.
  Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
  and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
  life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.
  It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
  but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

• As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lying, Guilt, Fleeting

  Diane Ackerman (2017). “The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

• We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, "I have a secret to tell you." And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Stars, Lying, Secret

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems”, p.102, Vintage

• I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lying, Thinking, Class

  "Author Diane Ackerman: 'One Hundred Names for Love'". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. May 17, 2012.

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