#lie

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you’re cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you’re someone you think you’re not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you’re plagued by it until you’re cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this ↗

— David Mamet

#charlie-rose-show #drama #lies #play #life

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control. ...Sometimes things take on a life of their own. You become powerless. There is nothing you can do to stop certain things from happening. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#life #pain #truth #life

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#lies #life #resources #work #life

Why am I always looking at life through a window? ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #life

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times. ↗

— Mukesh Ambani

#fundamental #grow #growth #i #i think

She could barely remember what life had been like before him and didn't even want to try. All Grace knew was that she wanted to be with him, always. ↗

— Victoria Michaels

#grace-park #michael-andris #life

If you truly believe something you will attempt to live it. Otherwise you don’t really believe it. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#commitment #life #life

Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#humour #life #life

I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief. ↗

— Toba Beta

#belief #believe #facts #foundation #life

In no man's land, alien is the queen. ↗