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Telling Quotes (page 220)

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests. Albert Camus
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. P. G. Wodehouse
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. Thomas Mann
We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent. Neal A. Maxwell
It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by telling her she was selfish. She was always planning out her own development, desiring her own perfection, observing her own progress. Her nature had for her own imagination a certain garden-like quality, a suggestion of perfume and murmuring bows, of shady bowers and of lengthening vistas, which made her feel that introspection was, after all, an exercise in the open air, and... Henry James
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called..."
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oscar Wilde quote: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh,..."
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. Oscar Wilde
Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon? Eugene O'Neill
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth? not a different truth: the same truth? only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live... Shelby Foote
You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it? John Steinbeck
Orson Scott Card quote: "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears,..."
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Orson Scott Card
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming. William Goldman
Even our parents seemed agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives Jeffrey Eugenides
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry B. Adams
Howard Zinn quote: "But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in..."
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth. Howard Zinn

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