#diction

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#conceal #contradiction #disguise #duplicity #falsehood

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#falsity #lack #nor #sign #truth

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about. ↗

— Keith Richards

#addiction #i #know #should #something

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#concerned #dictionary #dregs #elitist #ideas

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#clothes #costumes #different #down #dress

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#embraced #i #kind #like #philosophy

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#ferocious #i #lives #more #much

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#between #commences #contradiction #country #exchange

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#dictionary #look #news #tv #up