"I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness."

-- Philip Sington

#Character Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Stories Quotes

“For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry”
“My will to live completely overcame my desire to win”

Source : "The Joy of Six: great Olympians" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.
“Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.”
“Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.”

Source : Poems (1963 ed.) "Strange Meeting"
“If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.”
“The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts”
“I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.”
“Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com

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