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“I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.”

Thinking Want I Can Lying Can Do One Thing Caught Caught Up

Author:Frank Ocean

“The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.”

Needs Mind Facts Lying Views Perspective Logic Metaphor Caught Woods Agents Comparison Transition Traps Relentless Exit Guidelines Spectacles

Book:Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“I told a lie the other day. I said that I'd caught a 'bunch' of trout. What I should have said is that I caught a little trout that I named Bunch. There, I?ve confessed and now I feel much better.”

Feels Should Littles Said Lying Sea Rivers Should Have Caught Fishes Bunch Boat Lakes Fishing Trout

Author:Jimmy Moore

“Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.”

Men May Lying Wise Caught Falsehood Sober

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author

“Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.”

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition

“At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.”

Ifs Knows Way Looks Care Lying Four Middle My Friends Caught Minors Who Cares Seventies Eighty Spectacular Rave Caught In The Middle

Book:Myself Among Others

Source: Myself Among Others

“Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.”

People Ifs Said Done Remember Lying Interest Higher Evidence Intelligent Caught Denied Lied

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat