#rue

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#geometry #inventions #poetry #science #sure

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#everything #geometry #invents #may #perfectly

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true! ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#age #am #anyone #ask #business

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. ↗

— Charles Vest

#advanced #agency #been #bit #come

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#cannot #date #good #late #moral

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#love #rare #rarer #true #true friendship

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal. ↗

— Brad Thor

#along #be different #being #being different #books

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#else #hangs #information #itself #nothing

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#cruel #die #dogs #free #good

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ↗

— James Thurber

#doing #everywhere #fun #himself #humorist