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“Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.”

Lying Emotion Artistic Inevitability Adequacy

Author:T. S. Eliot

“If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.”

Ifs Lying Emotion Equal Technique Stealing Zero Spectators

Author:Wu Guanzhong

“Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!”

Knows Way Writing Persons Done Moments Truth Lying Desire Speak Deals Emotion Fiction Events Details Length Peculiar Packs Inventing Fiction Writers Devious

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.”

Art Whole Character Lying Emotion Novel Lofty

Author:Paul Bourget

“You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.”

Ifs Lying Voice Emotion Talent Instruments Subtext Great Voice

Author:Marc E. Platt

“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.”

Lying Sleep Emotion Wise Words Awake Awake At Night Good Night Sleep Worldly Wisdom

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I wasn't angry. There are lots of times that those emotions come out in my career.”

Ifs Humans Said Faces Lying Emotion Careers Tears Angry Rolling

Author:Carli Lloyd

“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.”

Men Humans Lying Names Emotion Seeing Masters Mercy Fortune Compelled Bondage Prey Infirmity

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.”

Faces Lying Emotion Guilt Fleeting Stalking Leaks

Book:The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)

Source: The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)