Stories are just lies made to look like truth.
– Johnny Rich
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- Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth. – Johnny Rich
- Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. – Johnny Rich
- Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects – Johnny Rich
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. – Johnny Cash
- The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies… in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you. – Steve Maraboli
- Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies. – Suzy Kassem
- Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories – Nourhan Mamdouh
- The more you believe, the more you’ll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway. – Will Advise
- He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end. – Charles Bukowski
- …lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn’t ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. – Charles ens
- What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us – Henry Stanley Haskins
- This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch. – Johnny Rich
- His suffering was no more real than he was. – Johnny Rich
- For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are. – Johnny Rich
- It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them. – Johnny Rich
- I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this. – Johnny Rich
- Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? – Johnny Rich
- Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering – Johnny Rich
- Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script. – Johnny Rich
- I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice. – Johnny Rich
- The future is certain. It is just not known. – Johnny Rich
- All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable. – Johnny Rich
- Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness – Johnny Rich
- I’m a bit-part actor in my own life – Johnny Rich
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich
- He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing – Johnny Rich
- Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? – Johnny Rich
- Silent is an anagram of listen. – Johnny Rich
- Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose. – Johnny Rich
- A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. – Johnny Rich
- Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough. – Johnny Rich
- As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author. – Johnny Rich
- Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented. – Johnny Rich
- Even Damocles developed a routine. – Johnny Rich