Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes false felt intolerable
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. Doris Lessing blacksimplething Change image and share on social
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. Doris Lessing angelfaultfriend Change image and share on social
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. Doris Lessing aircatdiagram Change image and share on social
Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far. Rachel Miner abilitybackbasically share on social
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. Italo Calvino authorcharactercult Change image and share on social
My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot. Andrea Seigel apologeticcharacterizationentertainment Change image and share on social