#ch

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#rebellion #criticism

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. ↗

— Guy Debord

#been #between #choose #chosen #disposal

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#strength-of-character #value-in-a-person #criticism

Some people, from what I've seen, boo, when they lie, they become very still and centered and their gaze very concentrated and intense. They try to dominate the person they lie to. The person to whom they're lying. Another type becomes fluttery and insubstantial and punctuates his lie with little self-deprecating motions and sounds, as if credulity were the same as pity. Some bury the lie in so many digressions and asides that they like try to slip the lie in there through all the extraneous data like a tiny bug through a windowscreen ... Then there are what I might call your Kamikaze-style liars. These'll tell you a surreal and fundamentally incredible lie, and then pretend a crisis of conscience and retract the original lie, and then offer you the like they really want you to buy instead, so the real lie'll appear a some kind of concession, a settlement with through. That type's mercifully easy to see through ... Or then the type who sort of overelaborates on the lie, buttresses it with rococo formations of detail and amendment, and that's how you can always tell ... So Now I've established a subtype of the over-elaborator type. This is the liar who used to be an over-elaborator and but has somehow snapped to the fact that rococo elaborations give him away every time, so he changes and now lies tersely, sparely, seeming somehow bored, like what he's saying is too obviously true to waste time on. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#liars #overanalysis #types-of-liars #change

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra ↗

— André Breton

#orchestra #surrealism #surreal

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#nightmare #struggle #choice

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. ↗

— Cheryl Hughes

#honesty #integrity #lying #trust #cheating

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99) ↗

— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#differences #islam

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#freud #irish #misquote #psychoanalysis #psychology

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago. ↗

— Heather Brewer

#ninth-grade-slays #the-chronicles-of-vladimir-tod #vladimir-tod #race