"A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality."

--

Yukio Mishima

#Lying Quotes #Father Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope”
“I think sex appeal is something that's fun. But I'd guess any man with any conscious consideration or understanding of his own sex appeal is one of the least sexy men you might meet.”

Source : "Is this it?". Th Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2008.
“I'm more a dog person than a cat person.”
“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.”
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”
“If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.”
“A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.”
“Everybody sees things their own way, but putting it onscreen is a different story - you have to deal with production crews. That's what differentiates a good director.”

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