Quotes About Perception

No me importa que me llamen mentiroso. Lo soy. Soy un mentiroso extraordinario. Pero no soporto que me llamen mentiroso cuando estoy diciendo la verdad.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

Such was our conversation. But not only were we lacking touch to guide us, it was as if we were also strangely deaf. So we danced very carefully, unsure what music the other was listening to, unsure, perhaps, if the other was dancing at all.

Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist. It's a fine line to walk, but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed." He

But you of all people should realize how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.

Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

It's a dragon." "It's not a dragon," I said. "There's no such thing as dragons." "Look at it!" she hissed at me. "It's right there! Look at the huge Goddamn dragon!

Your next lesson is this: all women are the same height lying down.

Los pies dicen mucho de una persona ?caviló?. Hay hombres que entran aquí, sonrientes, con los zapatos muy limpios y los calcetines empolvados. Pero cuando se descalzan, sus pies huelen a rayos. Esas son las personas que ocultan cosas. Tienen secretos apestosos e intentan ocultarlos, como intentan ocultar el hedor de sus pies.

Reputation is like a form of armor, or a weapon you can brandish if need be.

Todos nos contamos una historia sobre nosotros mismos. Siempre. Continuamente. Esa historia es lo que nos convierte en lo que somos. Nos construimos

But there was no one there to see the truth of things. And there was no God guiding it. Only me.

Chronicler looked down, shaking his head. "I don't understand this fear you have of the Cthaeh," he said. "Well," Bast said, "evidence seems to indicate that you're not terribly smart.

Ho imparato che il modo migliore per essere al sicuro è fare in modo che i tuoi nemici pensino di non poterti ferire

It took him a long miserable time before he realized the truth of things: there is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.

I think things are usually bad one way or another," he said. "It might be that only us older folk can see it.

A dog can bark three times without counting.

You know you're clever. That's your weakness. You assume you know what you're getting into, but you don't.

And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself!

As he began to withdraw from them, it became clear to Grenouille for the first time that for eighteen years their compacted human effluvium had oppressed him like air heavy with an imminent thunderstorm. Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world, in this world devoid of humanity. On

For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.

Hem düÅŸündüm ki, senin fark?na varmas? için yanl?? çalmak zorundaysan, o zaman hiç fark?na varmas?n, daha iyi. Görüyor musunuz, ben böyleyim.

Se dio cuenta de que en el fondo podía contar a la gente todo cuanto quería; una vez había ganado su confianza -y confiaban en él tras el primer aliento con que inhalaban su aroma artificial-, se lo creían todo.