"That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right……" — Rachel Hartman
"That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should."
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Rachel Hartman
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15 Quotes by Rachel Hartman
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Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes…
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I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.
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The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.
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Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.
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I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.
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We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
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I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.
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For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
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The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
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The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.
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My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.
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Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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