Quotes About Fakery

#1. Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

Cynthia Ozick

#2. People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.

Casey Spooner

#3. There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

Malcolm McLaren

#4. Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Robert J. Shiller

#5. If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?

D.J. MacHale

#6. ...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.

Emma Chase

#7. We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#8. Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Rich Lowry

#9. In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest.

Sam Owen

#10. The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

Robin Marantz Henig

#11. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#12. In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation.

Billy Graham

#13. But readers aren't stupid, they can smell fakery a mile off.

Sarah Lotz

#14. There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

Steve Martin

#15. I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

Shellen Lubin

#16. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Charles Bukowski

#17. Fakers Are Feted, Innovators Are Isolated

Dean Cavanagh

#18. Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

Mason Cooley

#19. Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

Hillary Frank

#20. Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if they don't get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it is: Once a faker's found out, he dies. Truly. It always happens.

Jonathan Gash

#21. Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.

Maggie Nelson

#22. My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Will Smith

#23. When I see you, I think I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.

C. JoyBell C.