“Long term exposure to fake things makes real things seem overly dull, demanding, expensive, messy, complicated, and pretentious. Those raised on watermelon… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
“In Nigeria, if you live long enough, you will see your heroes turn to villains. Nobody is totally sane till the end;… — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno,… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
“I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy… — Shawna Lemay Copy Share Image
While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character… — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. — Morris Bender Copy Share Image
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“In other words, if a patent forgery like the " Protocols of the Elders of Zion " is believed by so many… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.” — Dominic Smith Copy Share Image
“Herbert Allen Jr. had convinced himself that appearances were important. Having calculated incorrectly around the first of the year that the press… — David McClintick Copy Share Image
“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“A lie is a forgery of a truth that is too big to embrace because of a prejudice that we’re too afraid… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
