"A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency."

-- Karl Kraus

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #White Quotes

“I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.”

Source : Eric Bentley (1986). “The Pirandello Commentaries”, p.9, Northwestern University Press
“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.”
“I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.”
“I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.”
“Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.”

Source : "House Hunting in the West Bank" by Gershom Gorenberg, prospect.org. June 4, 2009.
“A map is not a journey.”

Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (1988). “Guide to Fiction Writing”, Writer

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