#rut

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#emotional #emotional truth #experience #novel #rather

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#humour #life #melancholy #the-art-of-wishing #truth

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#truth #used #wait #world

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#falsehood #oil #rise #rise above #truth

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nature #prove #shall #truth #truth is

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#brute #destroyed #effectually #i #indolence

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cannot #man #may #reasonably #truth

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#conscience #either #honor #live #long

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#country #destroy #islamic #kill #liberties

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure