Cheat Quote by Carol Shields Download Open image “The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.” — Carol Shields ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cheat Life Life is Stories
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think… — Kris Jenner Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Dreaming her way backward in time, resurrecting images, the young girl realized, with wonder, that the absent are always present, that you don't make… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.” — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“…it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time. — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“This was during a period in my reading life when I was given to understand that "relating" to the fictional characters or situation was… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse,… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“I won't even mention the swift, transitory reward of lemon spray wax. Danielle Westerman and I have discussed the matter of housework. Not surprisingly,… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“A Canadian journalist named Pinky Fulham was killed when a soft drinks vending machine overturned, crushing him.” — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not. — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to to get ahead...and to think, all they have to do is READ!” — Fortune Copy Share Image
“If love was a game, a lot of people would cheat to win, but little would play it the right way.” — Amanda gabryelle dos santos Copy Share Image
“Rock-Paper-Scissors for it.” “But you always cheat,” Blake whined. “And then you just punch me and growl that ‘rock beats face’.” — Kyle Adams Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I dont play when it comes to being unfaithful. You cheat, you get no second chance & you lost the best thing that ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
