What did William McIlvanney mean by: Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. William McIlvanney Author · Scotland Copy
+ Writing is a way of sharing our humanity. Author, June 18, 2023January 2, 2025, William McIlvanney, Connection, Empathy, Expression, 0 William McIlvanney Author · Scotland
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William McIlvanney, Injustice, Justice, Law, 0 William McIlvanney Author · Scotland
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
