#tru

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#morality #truth #fashion

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ↗

— John Gardner

#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around. Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. There is no getting around it—people are hard to live with. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

#intellect

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down. ↗

— Lewis Black

#budget #comedy #economy #fire #police

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#economy

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#social-structure #society #economy

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#falsehood #memory #recollection #truth #memory

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#honour #integrity #mind #social-norms #truth

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#double-standards #envy #hate #indignation #morality

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#truth #wind