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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

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself. ↗


— Michael Richardson


#fantastique #fantasy #realism #reality #surrealism

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent To blow up the King and Parli’ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s providence he was catch’d With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King! ↗


— Alan Moore


#gunpowder #king #november #treason #english

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much. ↗


— Helene Hanff


#debt #england #kiss #please #writers

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism." (Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini) ↗


— Winston Churchill


#fascism #history #italy #lenin #politics

Commit yourself to good conduct (adab) both inwardly and outwardly; for whenever one transgresses the bounds of conduct outwardly, he is punished outwardly, and whenver one transgresses the bounds of conduct inwardly, he is punished inwardly. ↗


— Aisha the daughter of Abu Uthman Said B. Ismail Al Hiri of Nishapur.


#sufism #women-in-islam #islam

إن فساد المفاهيم أخطر وأشق علاجاً من فساد السلوك | محمد قطب: كيف ندعو الناس ↗


— محمد قطب


#islam

saya mahu menjadi muslim yang baik dengan selalu bertanya ↗


— Ahmad Wahib


#islam

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. ↗


— J.R.R. Tolkien


#gamgee #hobbit #samwise #tolkien #job






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