Hoaxes Quote by Jean Anouilh Download Open image “Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.” — Jean Anouilh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hoaxes Importance Inspiration Poet Poetry Self Self importance
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it-- — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24) — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men… — Edgar Fawcett Copy Share Image
It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing. — John Braine Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables)… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno's Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key players in… — Larry Klayman Copy Share Image
I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence. — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In a Bloomberg poll, 88% of respondents said that Wall Street bonuses should either be banned outright or taxed at 50%. Just 7% said… — Felix Salmon Copy Share Image
