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  • #65
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: grammar, writing-advice
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  • #65
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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  • #66
    Richelle Mead
    “Did you see that dress?” "I saw the dress.” "Did you like it?” He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?” When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school.” I smiled and fell asleep.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
    tags: funny, sweet
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  • #66
    Anne Lamott
    “If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-life
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  • #67
    Robert Hughes
    “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

    [Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]”
    ― Robert Hughes
    tags: art, artists, cezanne, confidence, creative-process, depression, depression-humor, doubt, fame, fame-and-fortune, great-art, great-artist, greatness, humility, insecurity, introspection, narcissism, paul-cezanne, self-awareness, self-delusion, self-doubt, self-doubts, self-esteem, self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
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  • #67
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #67
    Truman Capote
    “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
    ― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations
    tags: creative-process, music, poetry, writing
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  • #68
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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  • #69
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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  • #70
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: existence, truth
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  • #71
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #72
    Sarah Dessen
    “So you're always honest," I said.
    "Aren't you?"
    "No," I told him. "I'm not."
    "Well, that's good to know, I guess."
    "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
    "How'd you mean it, then?"
    "I just...I don't always say what I feel."
    "Why not?"
    "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
    "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: lies, truth
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  • #73
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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  • #74
    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
    ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
    tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth
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  • #75
    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
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  • #76
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: truth, writing, writing-advice
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  • #77
    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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  • #78
    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: truth
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  • #79
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers
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  • #80
    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    ― Nadine Gordimer
    tags: truth
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  • #81
    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: humour, politics, truth
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  • #82
    George Washington
    “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth
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  • #83
    Kahlil Gibran
    “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: delight, heart, sorrow, truth, weeping
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  • #84
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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  • #85
    Lemony Snicket
    “There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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  • #86
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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  • #87
    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: hurt, lewis, misery, sad, truth
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  • #88
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
    tags: truth
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  • #89
    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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  • #90
    Oscar Wilde
    “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
    tags: epigram, paradox, truth, wisdom
    2151 likes



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