Quotes About Sincerity

could lie as well

You're lying to me, aren't you?" "Pretty much, yeah." "Thanks for being honest about your dishonesty.

Forget it. Don't write for the 'mainstream'. Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just 'follow your bliss' by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.

Do you think that praying in a loud voice and pounding your head on the ground will keep him from seeing into your heart?

La gente vera non parla mica così formale.

This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.

It's like there's some rule that real stuff can only get mentioned if everybody rolls their eyes or laughs in a way that isn't happy.

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David Foster Wallace

An ad that pretends to be art is—at absolute best—like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This

Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists.

I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as sadness.

He makes a reference to candor and its value.

Because it literally makes no sense. Close to two hundred people all punishing somebody by getting embarrassed for him, killing him by empathetically dying right there with him, for him, up there at the podium. The applause when this guy's done has the relieved feel of a fist unclenching, and their cries of 'Keep Coming!' are so sincere it's almost painful.

If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.

if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius

They do not love that do not show their love.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.