Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.

People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.

Sentences defended as literally accurate can mislead.

It is an occupational hazard to be quoted out of context.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.

They showed to us, moreover, with much derision the symbol of the cross. They spat upon it and wiped the feces from their posteriors with it. At last they urinated on it, as on some despicable thing, and threw our cross at us....

You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

Always, with any sort of politics, which is why we haven't got any, you get extremists, and once you get extremists, you get people doing great things and terrible things... for every following of some sort, you get followers who distort things.

At times, here at Milan, I have felt humiliated.

There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.