"Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Art Quotes #Lying Quotes #Self Quotes

“Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?”
“We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.”
“The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.”
“I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real”
“I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.”
“Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!”
“You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.”
“The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.”

Source : The Importance of Living ch. 9 (1938)

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