I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
-
Neil Gaiman
I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.
-
Dora J. Arod
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
-
E.m. Forster
Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.
-
Toba Beta
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved...
-
Thomas Henry Huxley
More Quotes By Mary McCarthy
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)
This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class...
Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.
