“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction is a part of truth.” – Mark Twain
Quotables
Quote the Nineteenth
“My greatest dream is to be studied by literary academics. I have left clues for them like Dan Brown left clues for Robert Langdon.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
Quote the Eighteenth
“To hate a good thing begets hatred. To hate an evil thing begets love.” – Cormac McCarthy
Quote the Seventeenth
“I have some ideas—the very saying of them makes them true—that will inevitably make me a famous artist.” – Andy Warhol
Quote the Sixteenth
“Much of my art is missing an essential ingredient of wisdom, that of sadness. This is intentional. I have left space for it as a courtesy, so that when you stop laughing, in a dark nook, or lying in bed, you have somewhere to put it.” – Calvin Harris
Quote the Fifteenth
“To become great is to believe in the stories about all those who became great before you.” – Haruki Murakami
Quote the Fourteenth
“The single greatest achievement in life is irreducibility.” – David Lynch
Quote the Thirteenth
“Reading about great artists who lived depressed, isolated, tortured lives I feel a pang of fear because I know some part of me has absorbed this possibility for myself, and may push me towards it without my knowledge or ability to protest.” – David Foster Wallace
Quote the Twelfth
“There are so many otherwise unreachable truths about myself that I am able to express through my art, but that isn’t enough.” – Charlie Kaufman
Quote the Eleventh
“If we admit that human life can be ruled, then all possibility of life is renewed.” – Leo Tolstoy
Quote the Tenth
“One must savor every moment like a saccharine wound.” – Federico Garcia Lorca
Quote the Ninth
“Anything that is only one thing is no thing.”
– Thomas Mann
Quote the Eighth
“Everything James Joyce writes is a joke; sometimes it’s funny; sometimes it’s true.”
– James Joyce
Quote the Seventh
“The boy says, ‘I am narcissistic; I am pretentious; I am a fool.’ The man turns and says, ‘You are narcissistic; you are pretentious; you are a fool.’”
– Walt Whitman
Quote the Sixth
“There are so many people I have decided not to be.”
– Charlie Kaufman
Quote The Fifth
“The Doctor Who episode about Van Gogh made me cry.”
– James Franco
Quote The Fourth
“In an encounter with dense meaning you must first sniff, then pucker, swish and spit; comment on your appreciation of bitter things and ask is that almond?”
– Douglas Adams
Quote The Third
“All change is good, even that which is evil.”
– Joe Biden
Quote The Second
“A true artist is both an imposter and a god, but never an imposter god.”
– Herman Melville
Quote The First
“To be pretentious is to believe god lives in the gap between logic and aesthetics.”
– Terrence Malick
