"We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling."

-- Henri Poincare

#Truth Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Consoling Quotes

“An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.”
“Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.”

Source : Peter Dobereiner (1973). “The glorious world of golf”
“Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.”
“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”
“I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.”

Source : Barbara Christian (2010). “New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000”, p.49, University of Illinois Press
“Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.”
“I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.”
“I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.”

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