"An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis."

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

#Truth Quotes #Errors Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.”
“Now, as a reader, you shouldn't feel the decisions the writer makes about this DNA, or it would be boring beyond belief. But, as a writer, you're struggling to make these decisions. What should the title be? What's the first line? The point of view? And the struggle with the decisions is because you're trying to figure out WHAT IS THE NOVEL, WHAT IS THE NOVEL?”
“Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.”
“I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.”
“Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.”
“The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'”
“You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.”
“To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.”

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