"If it's fiction, then it better be true."

-- Sherman Alexie

#Fiction Quotes #Being True Quotes

“And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.”
“And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...”

Source : Blanche Wiesen Cook (1992). “Eleanor Roosevelt: 1884-1933”
“Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library
“Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.”
“If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.”
“Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.”
“Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music”
“They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.”

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