George Pelecanos Quotes

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

George Pelecanos

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• The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Hate

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • True
  • My Life

• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • True
  • Lost

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• A hair divides what is false and true.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Hair
  • False

• If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Creative

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Father

• You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • True
  • Night
  • Day

• Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Death
  • End
  • Perspective

• In true prose everything must be underlined.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • Everything
  • Must

• Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • True
  • Thought
  • Honesty

• I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Know

• There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • True
  • Said

• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Real
  • True
  • Memories

• I can not get over everything you did for me in that first day for his support to hang her works on the 7th Impressionist exhibition, Spring 1882, it seems to me that you are working yourself to death, and all on my account. This touches me deeply and vexes me at the same time.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Time
  • Death
  • Support

• Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.

  

  Christopher Paolini
  • Believe
  • Death

• Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • True
  • Know
  • True Love

• But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Gold

• If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

  

  George Pelecanos
  • True
  • Death
  • Storytellers