#liar

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#answer #any #city #country #familiar

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#age #brings #distrust #doctrine #familiar

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#being #billiards #golf #good #imagine

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. ↗

— Henry Miller

#admittedly #even #fabric #fiction #invention

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. ↗

— Henry Miller

#appears #enslaved #familiar #fear #guise

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#good #good ones #liars #natural #ones

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#familiar #familiarize #imagine #mystify #power

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#became #certainly #deeply #dolls #i

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#exotic #feel #great #i #i feel

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection. ↗

— Marc Newson

#emotional #familiar #feel #gives #important