"It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually."

-- Elliott Smith

#Telling The Truth Quotes #Easier Quotes

“Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.”

Source : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.131, U of Nebraska Press
“I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.”
“All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.”
“Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.”
“Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.”
“I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.”
“Satan was the originator of sin”
“I have not had a drink for four years, which for me is a long time.”

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