#lies

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#lies #life #matt #mattie #stories

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves. ↗

— Brad Meltzer

#life

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#care #comfort #ease #enough #face

A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#life #truth #life

Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out." "Yes, sir," Andrews said. "Well, there's nothing," McDonald said. "You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you — that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else. Then you know you could of had the world, because you're the only one that knows the secret; only then it's too late. You're too old." "No," Andrews said. A vague terror crept from the darkness that surrounded them, and tightened his voice. "That's not the way it is." "You ain't learned, then," McDonald said. "You ain't learned yet. . . . ↗

— John Edward Williams

#the-horror #truth #life

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives. ↗

— Ian McDonald

#life #life

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, 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

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

Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief. ↗

— Susan Bennett

#life-journey #secrets #thrilling-life #life