"The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Truth Is Quotes #Used Quotes #Distortion Quotes

“The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.”

Source : Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc
“Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion”
“If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!”
“One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else.”
“When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 8, 2017
“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”
“Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.”

Source : John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing
“Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.”

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