"Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.”
“Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com
“Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.”

Source : "Researcher: Dwindling Oil Supplies to Bring Energy Crisis" by Lee Dye, abcnews.go.com.
“The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it was, and so it ever shall be.”

Source : E. W. Bullinger (2008). “How to Enjoy the Bible”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.
“My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.”
“I can only see right in front of me when I'm writing, you know? I never think of it as raw or personal or anything but where I'm at in the moment. But I can see it sort of after I finish.”
“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”
“Iâ€™d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.”

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