"As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not."

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Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#Fiction Quotes #Facts Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Perhaps it is easier to understand that even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behavior of another person, we can grant that each individual does have their private world of meaning, conceived out of the integrity and dignity of their personality.”
“Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.”
“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.”
“A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1976.
“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.”
“Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?”
“Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.”
“I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.”

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