"A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."

-- George Orwell

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.”
“Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.”
“God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.”
“There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.”
“All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.40, Vintage
“My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.”
“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 09, 2016

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