"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."

-- Albert Camus

#Lying Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult.”

Source : "Grizzly Bear". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2012.
“If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.”
“I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.”
“Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.”

Source : Sol Saks (1991). “Funny Business: The Craft of Comedy Writing”, Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC
“We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.”
“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
“I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.”

Source : "Don Imus's Last Stand". Interview with Buzz Bissinger, www.vanityfair.com. February 2006.
“I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.”

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