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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.


David Foster Wallace


#infinite-jest #books

Some people, from what I've seen, boo, when they lie, they become very still and centered and their gaze very concentrated and intense. They try to dominate the person they lie to. The person to whom they're lying. Another type becomes fluttery and insubstantial and punctuates his lie with little self-deprecating motions and sounds, as if credulity were the same as pity. Some bury the lie in so many digressions and asides that they like try to slip the lie in there through all the extraneous data like a tiny bug through a windowscreen ... Then there are what I might call your Kamikaze-style liars. These'll tell you a surreal and fundamentally incredible lie, and then pretend a crisis of conscience and retract the original lie, and then offer you the like they really want you to buy instead, so the real lie'll appear a some kind of concession, a settlement with through. That type's mercifully easy to see through ... Or then the type who sort of overelaborates on the lie, buttresses it with rococo formations of detail and amendment, and that's how you can always tell ... So Now I've established a subtype of the over-elaborator type. This is the liar who used to be an over-elaborator and but has somehow snapped to the fact that rococo elaborations give him away every time, so he changes and now lies tersely, sparely, seeming somehow bored, like what he's saying is too obviously true to waste time on.


David Foster Wallace


#liars #overanalysis #types-of-liars #change

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.


Ovid


#love #majesty #nor #place #same

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.


Ville Valo


#almost #asks #band #death #derives

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.


Charles Eastman


#awe #character #elements #fire #forces

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.


E. M. Forster


#bad taste #italy #majestic #something #taste

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.


Robert Walpole


#against #alleging #any #crime #crown

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.


Thornton Wilder


#her #inflict #jests #most #nature

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.


George Grey


#although #beautiful #breath #communicated #grand

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.


John Howard


#difficulty #god #her #i #majesty