Pastoral Resources

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.