"Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then."

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Source : Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

Frank Herbert

#Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes #Demand Quotes

“... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...”

Source : Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.73, Atlantic Books Ltd
“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.”
“Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.”
“In my mind at that time, at 14, the men who were successful were Stallone and Schwarzenegger and guys like that - Harrison Ford - who were these men of action. I was like, "Okay, they're successful, they're not getting evicted, they built their bodies - I'm gonna go build my body." It was like that.”
“Although I am good at enumerating my fatherâ€™s flaws, itâ€™s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because heâ€™s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.”
“What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.”
“I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.”

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