"fiction is the great lie that tells the truth"

-- Dorothy Allison

#Lying Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.”
“That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.”
“A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.”
“Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
“Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?”
“Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.”
“We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.”
“Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.”

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