#nest

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#honesty #mask #people #satan

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#f-scott-fitzgerald #letter #on-writing #storytelling #storytelling

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#honesty #self-awareness #meditation

What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow? ↗

— Ernest Renan

#life

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#around #honestly #i #i see #me

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. ↗

— James Lafferty

#been #collectors #common #common knowledge #finest

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

#around #artist #because #best #bunch

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. ↗

— Richard Lamm

#big #billboard #flashing #immigration #immigration law

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#discipline #giving #great #hard #honestly

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#catholic #charity #children #chosen #compassion