It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.
Benoit Blanc, Glass Onion (2022)
It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.
Benoit Blanc, Glass Onion (2022)
While something may be unlikely given what is known, to say, “There’s no evidence X is true,” when no effort to gather evidence has been made is just disingenuous.
For the record, if it’s a matter of state policy that something is false, and it’s a crime to say otherwise, it’s almost certainly true.
Robert A. Heinlein went on record that he felt the phrase, “All’s fair in love and war” was a “contemptable lie.” Along those same lines, I also put into the “contemptable lie” category the phrase, “If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.”
Just because you’ve known something for a long time doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve stopped fighting the idea of accepting it.
I hate when I end up writing things like “my mother isn’t good with computers,” because I feel like that’s such a trope, and I hate tropes.
But I long ago made the decision that when I’m writing, truth trumps trope.
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
– Edgar Allan Poe, “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether”
I may be the only person who sees a label that says “Animal cruelty free” and mentally adds, “But we torture the **** out of plants and humans!”.
Look . . . we need to talk. Maybe we’ve talked recently, or maybe it’s been years, but there’s something I need to say. If we spent any significant time together at all, it’s something I would have tried to say before at least once, but I may not have said it well, so I’m going to try again.
If I ever told you that you were smart, it’s because you are smart. The same applies if I ever told you that you were pretty/handsome, talented, funny, or any other positive trait I might have commented on. I get that everyone has moments of self-doubt sometimes, but it bothers me if you start to wallow in them. When you doubt yourself like that it bothers me a larger scale because I can clearly see that your doubts aren’t based in fact, and it bothers me on a more personal level because (and I say this somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of course) it feels like you’re calling me a liar.
Stop calling me a liar, damn it!
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.