#tru

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#among #conceived #dedicated #disagree #distinguish

My rapier wit hides my inner pain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #the-mortal-instruments #tmi #humor

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#deconstruction #influence #understanding #writing #communication

They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#relationships #truth #beauty

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#destruction #art

Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you: -Is that all you're going to do all day, sit in front of the computer? -When I was your age I had two jobs. -Why don't you wear some clothes that fir for a change? -Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here. -You're not eating that for dinner. -Did you do your homework? -Stop mumbling and speak up. -Now what did you do? -Because I said so. -No. ↗

— Charles Benoit

#truth #age

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#love

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#better #convinced #i #i am #i can

My life is a struggle. ↗

— Voltaire

#life is a #my life #struggle