“Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.”

—  Colson Whitehead, book The Underground Railroad

Source: The Underground Railroad

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of …" by Colson Whitehead?
Colson Whitehead photo
Colson Whitehead12
novelist 1969

Related quotes

Nora Roberts photo

“Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?"

She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door.

"You hardly ever make the jump.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Key of Light

Ryū Murakami photo

“In the old days, things like tropical fish or imported wineglasses weren’t within reach for the average person. Now when you walked down the street you passed shop windows full of the finest quality goods from around the world. Any of these things could be yours if you were willing to sacrifice a little, and many people ended up sacrificing a lot. It’s difficult to control the desire to accumulate things.”

Ryū Murakami book Audition

Source: Audition (1997), Chapter Five

Donovan photo

“When I look out my window,
Many sights to see.
And when I look in my window,
So many different people to be…”

Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist

Sunshine Superman (1966), Season Of The Witch

Nick Drake photo

“And what will happen in the morning when the world it gets
So crowded that you can't look out the window in the morning?”

Nick Drake (1948–1974) British singer-songwriter

Hazey Jane II
Song lyrics, Bryter Later (1970)

Agatha Christie photo

“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Claude Lévi-Strauss photo

“A day will come when the idea that for the sake of food the people of the past raised and massacred living beings and with complete equanimity displayed their flesh in bits and pieces in shop windows, will no doubt inspire the same revulsion that the cannibalistic meals of the Americans, Oceanians, or Africans inspired in the travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist

"La leçon de sagesse des vaches folles" [The wise lesson of mad cows], in Études rurales (2001); as quoted in Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals, trans. Sherab Chödzin Kohn, Shambhala Publications, 2016, p. 68 https://books.google.it/books?id=bTLuDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68

Angelina Jolie photo

“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

Kate Bush photo

“Reaching out for that hand to hold.
Reaching out for the Star.
Reaching out for the Star that explodes.
Reaching out for Mama.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

Karl Pilkington photo

“Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Podcast Series 2 Episode 1
On Art

Related topics