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Telling The Truth Quotes (page 8)

You would never do anything like that, would you?" my wife asked him. "You would never hurt animals."Our son shook his head, looking offended by the question. He might have been lying, but my knowledge of his belief system, composed of equal parts off-kilter Far Side animal-centrism and a dark Captain Nemoesque contempt for humanity, inclined me to think he was telling the truth. Gigantic fish pulling the limbs from cruel little boys, that might be something you could get him to sign on for. Michael Chabon
Dorothy Allison quote: "Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the..."
Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives. Dorothy Allison
Margaret Atwood quote: "Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first..."
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. Margaret Atwood
George Bernard Shaw quote: "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke..."
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. George Bernard Shaw
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff all writers and readers everywhere share and respond to, feel. Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable. David Foster Wallace
And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain. Mary Oliver
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. Bob Graham
I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said. Robert Evans
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. J. Edgar Hoover
Paul Weyrich quote: "Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who..."
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe. Paul Weyrich
I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth. Kevin O'Leary
Jeremy Northam quote: "Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's..."
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. Jeremy Northam
I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. Sammy Hagar
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. Kenny Loggins
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. T. E. Lawrence

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