"Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Children Quotes #Lying Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.”
“When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.”
“The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.”
“I'm out to prove something-that I'm all for real and that I can do it on my own without any help.”
“When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.”

Source : "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.
“Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?”
“When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!”
“...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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