"The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."

-- Theodor Adorno

#Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.”

Source : Jacob Neusner (1984). “How to grade your professors, and other unexpected advice”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.”
“I feel like they would just be the funnest people. I wish I could have been friends with Michael Jackson, just because he had the most badass house of all time and I could just go out and go on amusement park rides and then he could teach me how to moonwalk.”
“Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.”
“If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.”

Source : "The Middle Man". Book by Lauryn Hill, 2003.
“There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.”
“Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.”
“A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.”

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