#liar

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #difficult #even #his #more

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#his #liar #loses #never #only

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Aesop

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#everyone #fall #falling #falling in love #familiar

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days. ↗

— Bjork

#i #julliard #like #music #schools

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#anyone #college #comfortable #daunting #environment

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#being #combines #die #i #ill

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. ↗

— Louise Brown

#i #me #peculiar #something #thought