#ruth

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it. ↗

— Adam Savage

#because #bit #i #laugh #little

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#enjoy #everybody #forward #know #lawyers

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#athlete #babe #babe ruth #basis #choose

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#cannot #carried #could #days #elude

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#ball game #became #beyond #bowl #christmas

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#invisible #lives #only #priest #realm

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#finances #health #lie #lot #people

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#am #around #artist #because #go