“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
Cormac McCarthy book The Road
Source: The Road
Machado de Assis (1839–1908) Brazilian writer
Homem é…uma errata pensante, isso sim. Cada estação da vida é uma edição, que corrige a anterior, e que será corrigida também, até a edição definitiva, que o editor da de graça aos vermes.
Source: As Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (1881), Ch. 27, p. 57.
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Cry! Cry! Cry!
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
“Every lie haunts our future.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
2010s, Lying (2011)
“Inside every believe, there’s a lie.” - Eliza Caelum”
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.”
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer
Comment about Lillian Hellman in a televised interview (1979) on The Dick Cavett Show; this prompted a defamation suit against McCarthy which was dropped after Hellman's death: "If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on. I didn't want her to die. I wanted her to lose in court. I wanted her around for that."
“Every time you talk to this person, you lie.”
Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), Recognizing Your Archenemy
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: https://www.npr.org/2006/11/22/6524058/jodi-picoult-you-cant-edit-a-blank-page