#unpleasant

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#also #begin #dress #fantasies #imagination

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#saying #truth #unpleasant #way

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#deal #else #everyone #hands #i

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#diagnosed #irony #once #problem #realities

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid. ↗

— Will Oldham

#fierce #had #i #i can #kid

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#assassin #boy #bravest #chose #complex

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#answers #anxiety #away #disturbing #honest

Leave a person alone who had a unpleasant past if you cant make his future a pleasant, you would do worse ↗

— Abayasinha

#past #people #sad #unpleasant #love

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#willful-ignorance #ignorance