#nest

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#honesty #humour #military #military

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