"Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit."

-- Robert J. Flaherty

#Lying Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.”
“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.”

Source : Karle Wilson Baker, Sarah Ragland Jackson, Charlotte Baker Montgomery (2006). “The Birds of Tanglewood”, p.42, Texas A&M University Press
“Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.”
“I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.”
“The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.”
“It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.”

Source : O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.423, Penguin
“You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.”

Source : Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.41, Cambridge University Press
“Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.”

Source : "The Devil's Bedside Book". Book by Leonard Rossiter, p. 46, 1980.

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