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Truthfulness Quotes (page 155)

Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place. Terry Prachett
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others Allen Ginsberg
... because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of twoin a single body, a single soul, oh total being... Octavio Paz
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Richard Avedon
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my..."
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. Nadine Gordimer
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are..."
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. Eleanor Roosevelt
J. G. Ballard quote: "The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty..."
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. J. G. Ballard
Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] “Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind. Oscar Wilde
Boris Pasternak quote: "Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all..."
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently Boris Pasternak
The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman. Albert Camus
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true? William Shakespeare
He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking. Frederick Buechner
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Barack Obama
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for..."
Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth. Chuck Palahniuk
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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