#ruth

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#make #sense #stranger #than #truth

Sex with me has been described by more than one person as “Like making love to a brick.” Of course, you’re probably skeptical, because all men boast—exaggerate—about their sexual prowess. Rest assured, if that’s not the truth, it’s only because it’s an overstatement. A brick actually moves around more than I do.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#brick-and-blanket-uses #funny #humor #love #sex

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fantastic #imperfect #important #most #nevertheless

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#truth #dead

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#barack obama #because #else #engaged #everybody

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#beauty #truth #beauty

If 'All' --quite seriously all---'for love' is implicit in the Beloved's attitude, his or her love is not worth having. It is not related in the right way to Love Himself. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#romance #the-four-loves #truth #attitude

People are basically good, and when they are in possession of the full truth, they usually do the right things. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#educated #truth #education

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life. ↗

— Jimmy Sangster

#enjoy life #life #locked #much #obscure

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#devices #everyone #far #forms #goes