#rue

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. ↗

— Robert J. Flaherty

#distort #lie #often #sometimes #spirit

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#common #good #had #happened #one thing

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

#how #know #many #real #real things

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#bitter #cold #comes #cruel #how

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#i #i do #i write #mind #reader

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#because #forgive #haste #knows #make

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#great #novels #true

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#artist #contrary #finer #immorality #morality

I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#burners #even #how #i #i am

And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#also #believe #him #job #make