Quotes About Fabrication

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

We were put on this earth to make things.

But by now all his stories are so saturated with falsehood that anything said about him is false. He's succeeded in this, at least.

A lot of what we know to be history isn't…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned.

A lot of what we know to be history isn't," said Gamache. "You know that, I know that. It serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned. Can't have that.

Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned.

Gli uomini, per vivere, hanno bisogno di certezze, e quando queste non ci sono, c'è sempre qualcuno che se le inventa per il bene comune.

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

Never design anything that cannot be made.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

Fiction is just lying.

remembered the words of the man in the brown suit, and how they had echoed around the rafters of my rooms under the eaves. Yet the man in the brown suit was a figment of her imagination. I should have expected it. She was a spinner of yarns, wasn't she? A storyteller. A fabulist. A liar. And the plea that had so moved me—Tell me the truth—had been uttered by a man who was not even real. I was at a loss to explain to myself the bitterness of my disappointment.

I have long stressed the Hegelian procedure at work in this reversal of positions of the beautiful soul in relation to the reality he accuses. The point is not to adapt him to it, but to show him that he is only too well adapted to it, since he assists in its very fabrication.

This is a work of fiction.

could be stretching the truth

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?' 'For fun?' 'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

That's okay, I said. We're writers. We make things up.

Norman Maclean called A River Runs Through It fiction, and the word "fiction" appeared in the book's front matter. A River Runs Through It was autobiographical fact in nearly all aspects but one. For private reasons, the author had shifted the site of his brother's murder and, being Norman Maclean, considered that change and others quite enough fabrication to disqualify the text as nonfiction.

We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.