"If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having."

-- Denis Johnson

#Lying Quotes #Play Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.”
“Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail”
“Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?”
“The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.”
“Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.263, Penguin
“[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.”
“Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.”

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