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“Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.”

Lying Found Imagine Surface Mask Imagine That Canvas Disregard

Author:William Merritt Chase

“Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.”

Made Enough Seems Form Lying Lost Left Lines Forever Imagine Bases Fundamentals Fishes Conservative Stupidity Mortals Fishing Wet Doomed Torment Left Out Hades

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”

Trying Years Sometimes Would Be Lying Night Imagine Periods Odd Awake Being The Best Seventies Awake At Night

Author:Michael Dirda

“Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.”

Men States Action Lying Order Passion Behinds Cases Imagine Youth Deeds Atmosphere Accomplished Forgetfulness Alone Life

Author:Georg Brandes

“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”

Source: The House and Home: A Practical Book

“Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.”

Men Lying Humanity Known Imagine Capacity

Book:The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.”

“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.”

People Want Giving Long Art Whole Shows Lying Pleasure Imagine Affair Good Times Cheerful Hospitality Embellishment

Author:Isabel Fonseca