#reveals

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place. ↗

— Michael Medved

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Muriel Spark

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I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are. ↗

— Michelle Obama

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#book #hopefully #i #itself #never

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— e. e. cummings

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One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story. ↗

— Jessica Lange

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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#distort #facts #fiction #lies #never

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

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