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Quotes About Fabrication

Dalton Ames. Dalton Ames. Dalton Shirts. I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, until I saw they were of heavy Chinese silk or finest flannel because they made his face so brown his eyes so blue. Dalton Ames. It just missed gentility. Theatrical fixture. Just papier-mache, then touch. Oh. Asbestos. Not quite bronze.
~ William Faulkner
Good propaganda, to be effective, as Hitler and Goebbels had learned from experience, needs more than words. It needs deeds, however much they may have to be fabricated.
~ William L. Shirer
People accuse therapists of seeing abuse where there isn't any; of fabricating memories for their patients. Maybe this is true. But if so, it's because neurosis without a perceptible cause is very hard to accept. How does one fix a problem that arose from nothing?
~ Heidi Julavits
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
~ Ralph Merkle
los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;
~ Javier Cercas
J'étais un enfant, ce monstre qu'ils fabriquent avec leurs regrets.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
~ Rex Stout
Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
42.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
~ Unknown
Since there was no longer a horizon towards which to rush, they would invent fake ones - substitute horizons.
~ Paul Virilio
Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller
~ David Baldacci
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
What sustains me is to know that I shall always fabricate a god in the image I require in order to sleep peacefully, and that others will quietly pretend that we are all justified, and that there is nothing to be done. All this because we are astute by nature and the bastions of something. And above all, because we try not to understand.
~ Clarice Lispector
That is the taste of a liar!
~ Unknown
If I can't find a good enough story, I make one.
~ Holly Black
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
~ Lily Tomlin
The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.
~ Roger Scruton
create fake citizen involvement
~ Unknown
History is not so much memory as collective evidence. It is what has happened, what is thought to have happened, what some claim to have happened. The collective past is fact and fabrication--much like our private pasts. There is no received truth, just a tenuous thread of events amid a swirl of dispute and conflicting interpretation. But... the past is real. This is simplistic, but also, for me, awe-inspiring. I am silenced when I think about it: the great ballast of human existence.
~ Penelope Lively
But didn't you know? Everything is made up.
~ Peter Ackroyd
We made it up and then we were stuck with what we made up.
~ Philip K. Dick
You've been kidding yourself about yourself for so long, you're someone else. Your you is just a fragile fabrication. Every morning, you have to wake up, assemble this busy, dissembling monster, and get him or her on his or her feet again for another round of fantasy.
~ David Guterson
Zora," George Thomas informed me, "you come to de right place if lies is what you want. Ah'm gointer lie up a nation." Charlie Jones said, "Yeah, man. Me and my sworn buddy Gene Brazzle is here. Big Moose done come down from de mountain." "Now, you gointer hear lies above suspicion," Gene added.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.
~ Gore Verbinski