People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.
I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.
Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.
It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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