#sincerity

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#demands #high #high price #hollywood #most

I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

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Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting. ↗

— Alla Nazimova

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. ↗

— George Oppen

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. ↗

— George Orwell

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sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live ↗

— Mark Leidner

#pitchforks #sincerity #beauty

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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