"History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth."

-- Jean Cocteau

#Lying Quotes #Reality Quotes #Fables Quotes

“Do not make homes out of people. This will leave you homesick and sad.”
“There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.”
“I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.”
“I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.”

Source : "Alonzo Mourning: The Edge of Sports Interview". Interview with Dave Zirin, bleacherreport.com. January 27, 2009.
“The only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well.”
“We became friends in Dublin through music and we had real names, Fionan Hanvey and Derek Rowan - what a dreadful name. And Paul Hewson. We gave each other nicknames just the way most kids do, but the nicknames had more to do with how we physically looked or our essence and I had quite square features as a young kid. I was called Wavin for awhile, but I'm a bit softer - I'm a little softer than a surge pipe so they changed that to Gavin. I didn't chose it, it was Bono and Guggi who gave it to me.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.”

Source : Louis I. Kahn (1986). “Louis I. Kahn: l'uomo, il maestro”
“Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.”

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