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Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.


Chuck Klosterman


#anyone #bad #because #cannot #claims

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.


Alexander Kluge


#available #believe #communication #expression #i

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.


Norman Lamm


#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.


Robert Lanza


#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.


David Leavitt


#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.


Vivien Leigh


#clearly #diction #early #early age #english

I am providing a service that many people obviously value.


Matthew Lesko


#i #i am #many #obviously #people

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.


Jeremy Lin


#asian #athletic #because #deceptively #fight

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.


Joseph C. Lincoln


#cape #characters #city #drawn #dwellers

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.


Rich Lowry


#ill #mentally #more #population #seriously