#rue

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. ↗

— Truman Capote

#art #bad #being #between #came

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#created #ever #invented #itself #never

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#cause #christ #contend #conversion #ease

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell. ↗

— Will Carleton

#duty #heaven #hell #i #kept

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#being #father #happy #life #living

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bury #cannot #comes #construe #cunning

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#implausible #jokes #sound #surprising #true

And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches. ↗

— William Cavendish

#dressed #equally #except #haunches #his