A Quote by Bruno Bettelheim

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.

Bruno Bettelheim

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Bruno Bettelheim
Italian - Writer
August 28, 1903 - March 13, 1990

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Eugene O'Neill

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Peter Kreeft

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

DJ Spooky

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.

George R. R. Martin

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Ambrose Bierce

Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue. They're untrue. And they're misrepresentations.

Donald Trump

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

V. S. Naipaul

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

Byron Katie

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

Max Beckmann

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Ira Glass

All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners who dare to embrace an Eastern belief-system.

Frederick Lenz

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

Martha Grimes

Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream.

Frederick Lenz

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Ira Glass

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