Lies Quote by Julio Cortazar Download Open image “Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.” — Julio Cortazar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lies Lying Memories Memory Memory Mirror Mirror Scandalously Mirrors Past Scandalously Scandalously Lies
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The failure to remember is not a lie, although liars will often try to excuse their lies, once discovered, by claiming a memory failure.… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
“También hay ríos metafísicos, Horacio. Vos te vas a tirar a uno de esos ríos.” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“Me daba asco pensar así, una vez más estar pensando todo lo que a los otros les bastaba sentir.” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.” — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“Kada otvorim vrata i pojavim se na stepeništu, znaću da dole počinje ulica. Ali ne kalup, unapred prihvaćen, niti dobro poznate kuće, ni onaj… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“As soon as he began to amalate the noeme, the clemise began to smother her and they fell into hydromuries, into savage ambonies, into… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“That's how it is, Rocamadour: in Paris we're like fungus, we grow on the railings of staircases, in dark rooms with greasy smells, where… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.” — C.J. Tudor Copy Share Image
The greatest gift you can give to those around you is honesty. Sometimes honest words may sting the heart, but dishonesty pierces deep into… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image