"The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify."

-- Bob Dylan

#Philosophy Quotes #Lying Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.”

Source : James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.99, Penguin
“we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”

Source : Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”
“I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.”

Source : Jay Saunders Redding (1992). “A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977”, p.44, University Press of Kentucky
“Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.”
“There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.”
“But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?”

Source : Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.248, Pickle Partners Publishing
“The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.”
“There was a period of a few months, however, when I had a dreadful physical pain. I had just started writing a particular section of the novel and was initially worried that it would affect my work. I was woken by awful nightmares; I saw several doctors, tests were performed, nothing came of them, and the medics were mystified.It was two days after I finished writing the section that the penny dropped. The pain had suddenly disappeared and so too had the nightmares. I'd got things muddled. The pain and the nightmares were both psychosomatic.”

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