Vacuously True Statements

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or statements:

“The true story is vicious
and multiple and untrue
after all. Why do you
need it? Don’t ever
ask for the true story.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)

“He admired the terrible recreative power of his memory. It was only with the weakening of this generator whose fecundity diminishes with age that he could hope for his torture to be appeased. But it appeared that the power to make him suffer of one of Odette’s statements seemed exhausted, then one of these statements on which Swann’s spirit had until then not dwelled, an almost new word relayed the others and struck him with new vigor.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)