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We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time.
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romance
love
truth
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Chuck Klosterman |
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The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye. In a laboratory situation, when your whole procedure goes haywire, when everything goes wrong or is indeterminate or is so screwed up by unexpected results you can't make head or tail out of anything, you start looking laterally. That's a word he later used to describe a growth of knowledge that doesn't move forward like an arrow in flight, but expands sideways, like an arrow enlarging in flight, or like the archer, discovering that although he has hit the bull's-eye and won the prize, his head is on a pillow and the sun is coming in the window. Lateral knowledge is knowledge that's from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that's not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itself upon one. Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.
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truth
lateral-thinking
knowledge
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.
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sleep
story
happy
people
jesus
funny
religion
truth
docile
frightened
population
terrifying
delusion
terrified
dying
scared
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Neal Stephenson |
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Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.
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irony
truth
practicality
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James S.A. Corey |
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Este incredibil cat de completa este iluzia care ne face sa credem ca frumusetea este in genere bunatate.
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life
truth
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Leo Tolstoy |
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"When it rains," her father said "it pours."
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truth
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.
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turn-of-the-century-texas
truth
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Jeannette Walls |
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I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.
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philosophy
truth
wisdom
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Louis L'Amour |
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Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God's love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always will speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble.
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words
truth
ideals
lives
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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Sometimes when you get older--and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently--things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true--why, then you get offended.
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history
life
truth
challenge
offended
belief
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Sara Gruen |
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When I was ten years old, one of my friends brought a Shaleenian kangaroo-cat to school one day. I remember the way it hopped around with quick, nervous leaps, peering at everything with its large, almost circular golden eyes. One of the girls asked if it was a boy cat or a girl cat. Our instructor didn't know; neither did the boy who had brought it; but the teacher made the mistake of asking, 'How can we find out?' Someone piped up, 'We can vote on it!' The rest of the class chimed in with instant agreement and before I could voice my objection that some things can't be voted on, the election was held. It was decided that the Shaleenian kangaroo-cat was a boy, and forthwith, it was named Davy Crockett. Three months later, Davy Crockett had kittens. So much for democracy. It seems to me that if the electoral process can be so wrong about such a simple thing, isn't it possible for it to be very, very wrong on much more complex matters? We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right--but is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of them--most people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulation--they are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live. It is most disturbing to me to realize that though a majority may choose a specific course of action or direction for itself, through the workings of a 'representative government,' they may be as mistaken about the correctness of such a choice as my classmates were about the sex of that Shaleenian kangaroo-cat. I'm not so sure than an electoral government is necessarily the best.
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truth
majority-view
government
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David Gerrold |
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We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.
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science
truth
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Ayn Rand |
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"The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change."
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past
truth
narrative
physics
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Neil Postman |
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Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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struggle
life
truth
soul
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Herman Melville |
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Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.
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lying
truth
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Brené Brown |
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It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth. This was what I had done. I had built up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.
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truth
shyness
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Daphne du Maurier |
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"Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy."
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life
truth
crazyness
ender
genius
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Orson Scott Card |
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Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.
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truth
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David Morrell |
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Weren't movies his generation's faith anyway--its true religion? Wasn't the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, same guided emotions, same moral?...what was that but a religion?
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truth
my-religion
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Jess Walter |
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne.
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truth
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A.S. Byatt |
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I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.
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lying
truth
thomas-raith
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Jim Butcher |
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After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
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sex
humor
life
love
truth
battle-of-the-sexes
dorothea
don-quixote
lust
pleasure
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.
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death
truth
signs
secrets
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William T. Vollmann |
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Robespierre has never forgiven his friends the injuries he has done them, nor the kindnesses he has received from them, nor the talents some of them possess that he doesn't.
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truth
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Hilary Mantel |
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It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.
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life
truth
genius
trick
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Orson Scott Card |
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The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
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war
live
world
life
truth
genius
game
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Orson Scott Card |
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I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.
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fenfang
john-sandford
michele-cook
the-singular-menace
truth
outrage
mgg
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John Sandford |
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true--without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
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literature
reading
fiction
truth
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Matthew Pearl |
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Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
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truth
perils
righteous
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Edmund Spenser |
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The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish like a weed.
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truth
rumors
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Sue Grafton |
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It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.
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miracle
funny
truth
shaw
whole
divine
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David Baldacci |
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Each insult is woven with just enough truth to make it wound.
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truth
loki
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Neil Gaiman |
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So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.
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meaning
truth
comfortable
real-life
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Ray Bradbury |
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I pray that the world never runs out of dragons. I say that in all sincerity, though I have played a part in the death of one great wyrm. For the dragon is the quintessential enemy, the greatest foe, the unconquerable epitome of devastation. The dragon, above all other creatures, even the demons and the devils, evokes images of dark grandeur, of the greatest beast curled asleep on the greatest treasure hoard. They are the ultimate test of the hero and the ultimate fright of the child. They are older than the elves and more akin to the earth than the dwarves. The great dragons are the preternatural beast, the basic element of the beast, that darkest part of our imagination. The wizards cannot tell you of their origin, though they believe that a great wizard, a god of wizards, must have played some role in the first spawning of the beast. The elves, with their long fables explaining the creation of every aspect of the world, have many ancient tales concerning the origin of the dragons, but they admit, privately, that they really have no idea of how the dragons came to be. My own belief is more simple, and yet, more complicated by far. I believe that dragons appeared in the world immediately after the spawning of the first reasoning race. I do not credit any god of wizards with their creation, but rather, the most basic imagination wrought of unseen fears, of those first reasoning mortals. We make the dragons as we make the gods, because we need them, because, somewhere deep in our hearts, we recognize that a world without them is a world not worth living in. There are so many people in the land who want an answer, a definitive answer, for everything in life, and even for everything after life. They study and they test, and because those few find the answers for some simple questions, they assume that there are answers to be had for every question. What was the world like before there were people? Was there nothing but darkness before the sun and the stars? Was there anything at all? What were we, each of us, before we were born? And what, most importantly of all, shall we be after we die? Out of compassion, I hope that those questioners never find that which they seek. One self-proclaimed prophet came through Ten-Towns denying the possibility of an afterlife, claiming that those people who had died and were raised by priests, had, in fact, never died, and that their claims of experiences beyond the grave were an elaborate trick played on them by their own hearts, a ruse to ease the path to nothingness. For that is all there was, he said, an emptiness, a nothingness. Never in my life have I ever heard one begging so desperately for someone to prove him wrong. This is kind of what I believe right now... although, I do not want to be proved wrong... For what are we left with if there remains no mystery? What hope might we find if we know all of the answers? What is it within us, then, that so desperately wants to deny magic and to unravel mystery? Fear, I presume, based on the many uncertainties of life and the greatest uncertainty of death. Put those fears aside, I say, and live free of them, for if we just step back and watch the truth of the world, we will find that there is indeed magic all about us, unexplainable by numbers and formulas. What is the passion evoked by the stirring speech of the commander before the desperate battle, if not magic? What is the peace that an infant might know in its mother's arms, if not magic? What is love, if not magic? No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. And that, I fear, for any reasoning, conscious being, would be the cruelest trick of all. -Drizzt Do'Urden
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truth
inspirational
warming
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R.A. Salvatore |
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The planet is finished with us, at this point -
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science
truth
planet
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Zadie Smith |
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"The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true."
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money
looks
lies
good
meaning
success
happiness
life
truth
companies
conditioned
indicators
what
possessions
conditioning
is
of
fame
successful
western
society
goals
secular
media
deceit
power
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Tim Crawshaw |
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There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.
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life
truth
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
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truth
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Henry David Thoreau |
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As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements;' there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at...
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truth
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Henry David Thoreau |
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"The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be said even that the modern world, as a corporate body, holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogmas. It may be thought 'dogmatic,' for instance, in some circles accounted progressive, to assume the perfection or improvement of man in another world. But it is not thought "dogmatic" to assume the perfection or improvement of man in this world; though that idea of progress is quite as unproved as the idea of immortality, and from a rationalistic point of view quite as improbable. Progress happens to be one of our dogmas, and a dogma means a thing which is not thought dogmatic."
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progress
truth
rationalism
doctrine
dogma
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G.K. Chesterton |
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We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.
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religion
life
truth
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E.M. Forster |
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"The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful."
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writing
truth
literature-writing
novel
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E.M. Forster |
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Climbing hills was never one of my great ambitions. Perhaps I was just lazy, but I admit--now that I've been climbing a hill every other day--that it's very difficult to think about the stresses in your life while you're trying to avoid falling backwards when a goat with large horns is chasing you because you came too close to the little patch of grass he was planning to eat for breakfast.
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truth
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Gene Wilder |
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At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!
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righteousness
truth
self-sacrifice
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Victor Hugo |
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Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
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virtue
man
mind
existence
morality
reason
life
philosophy
truth
wisdom
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
consciousness
thinking
morals
values
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Ayn Rand |
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Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.
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virtue
man
mind
good
morality
reason
life
philosophy
truth
wisdom
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
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Ayn Rand |
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You asked me just now for the truth---well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.
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truth
lily-bart
the-house-of-mirth
reputation
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Edith Wharton |
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You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!
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lies
truth
obsolete
spider-jerusalem
news
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Warren Ellis |
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It feels nice to emerge from the lies.
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truth
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Markus Zusak |
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She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I don't want to know, I only want to love her.
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love
truth
truthful
ecstasy
love-is-blind
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Anaïs Nin |
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How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth.
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pain
truth
grieve
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Francine Rivers |
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Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on, 'We want religion, but no creeds.' This is like saying we want healing, but no science of medicine; music, but no rules of music; history, but no documents. Religion is indeed a life, but it grows out of truth, not away from it. It has been said it makes no difference what you believe, it all depends on how you act. This is psychological nonsense, for a man acts out of his beliefs. Our Lord placed truth or belief in Him first; then came sanctification and good deeds. But here truth was not a vague ideal, but a Person. Truth was now lovable, because only a Person is lovable. Sanctity becomes the response the heart makes to Divine truth and its unlimited mercy to humanity.
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jesus
religion
truth
sanctification
holiness
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Fulton J. Sheen |
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The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is.
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truth
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Cormac McCarthy |
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Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.
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marriage
men
good
women
god
love
truth
assist
minister
wife
pure
christian
follow
husband
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Elizabeth George |
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How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have risen to such a revelation of truth?
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truth
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Hay tantas verdades como hombres. De vez en cuando, alcanzo a vislumbrar una Verdad mas verdadera, escondida entre simulacros imperfectos de si misma, pero en cuanto me acerco, se agita y se hunde mas todavia en la espinosa cienaga del desacuerdo.
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spanish
truth
verdad
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David Mitchell |
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Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.
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good
life
truth
misunderstood
spooky
depth
book
literary
ethics
characters
crime
lonely
sad
novel
evil
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Rebecca McNutt |
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"...Do you think there's somewhere else, some other place to go after this one?" Mandy blurted out. "You mean when you die, where will you end up?" Alecto asked her. "...I wouldn't know... back to whatever void there is, I suppose." "I've thought about it... every living thing dies alone, it'll be lonely after death," Mandy sighed sadly. "That freaks me out, does it scare you?" "I don't want to be alone," Alecto replied wearily. "We won't be, though. We'll be dead, so we'll just be darkness, not much else, just memories, nostalgia and darkness." "I don't want to be any of that either though," Mandy exclaimed, bursting into tears and crying, keeping her eyes to the floor, her voice shaky as she spoke to him. "When we die, we'll still be nothing, the world will still be nothing, everything'll just be nothing!" "You're real though, at least that's something," Alecto pointed out, holding his hand out in front of her. Smiling miserably, Mandy took his hand in her own and sat there beside him quietly."
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time
grief
heaven
depression
death
imagination
sadness
truth
frightened
disturbing
grim
spooky
nirvana
funeral
purgatory
void
misery
scary
kill
dead
lost
dying
nostalgia
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Rebecca McNutt |
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A compliment about one's nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one's appearance doesn't mean overly much because there is no choice involved there.
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character
life
truth
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Julie Garwood |
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Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.
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truth-telling
women
honesty
truth
honesty-quotes
relationship-problems
women-s-fiction
women-writers
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Barbara Delinsky |
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The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.
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truth
media
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Chuck Klosterman |
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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking--that the mind is one's only judge of values and one's only guide of action--that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise--that a concession to the irrational invalidates one's consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality--that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind--that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one's consciousness.
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virtue
pain
man
mind
good
morality
reason
happiness
life
philosophy
truth
wisdom
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
|
Ayn Rand |
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Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
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lying
philosophy
truth
thought-provoking
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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We have the best chance of communicating our thoughts if we are sincere and speak from the heart, without hidden intent.
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truth
truthful
wu-wei
communication
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Wu Wei |
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"Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally. I don't budge. She nudges me with her elbow. "You want to know something?" I still can't look up. But I nod. "It's not your fault either." She says this like it's not big deal. Like it's nothing. But it's everything."
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truth
release
relief
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Patricia McCormick |
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Is truth something that in fact we do--and should--especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of ?
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truth
bullshit
introduction
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Harry G. Frankfurt |
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The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.
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stupidity
truth
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Brandon Mull |
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
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war
truth
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Vidish', ia togda vse se- bia sprashival: zachem ia tak glup, chto esli drugie glu- py i koli ia znaiu uzh naverno, chto oni glupy, to sam ne khochu byt' umnee? Potom ia uznal, Sonia, chto esli zhdat', poka vse stanut umnymi, to slishkom uzh dol- go budet... Potom ia eshche uznal, chto nikogda etogo i ne budet, chto ne peremeniatsia liudi, i ne peredelat' ikh nikomu, i truda ne stoit tratit'! Da, eto tak! Eto ikh zakon... Zakon, Sonia! Eto tak!.. I ia teper' znaiu, Sonia, chto kto krepok i silen umom i dukhom, tot nad nimi i vlastelin! Kto mnogo posmeet, tot u nikh i prav. Kto na bol'shee mozhet pliunut', tot u nikh i zakonodatel', a kto bol'she vsekh mozhet posmet', tot i vsekh pravee! Tak dosele velos' i tak vsegda budet! Tol'ko slepoi ne razgliadit!
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truth
wisdom
loathe
society
self-deception
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.
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existence
truth
immersion
morocco
senses
objectivity
subjectivity
outsider
stranger
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Paul Bowles |
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"[from ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there should be men.
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truth
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet--for me, anyway--all that's worth living for lies in that charm?
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illusion
reality
truth
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Donna Tartt |
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"Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don't recall just who gave me the quote. I placed it next to my voting card and have carried it ever since. The quote came from Elie Wiesel's book One Generation After. The quote was entitled "Why I Protest." Author Elie Wiesel tells the story of the one righteous man of Sodom, who walked the streets protesting against the injustice of this city. People made fun of him, derided him. Finally, a young person asked: "Why do you continue your protest against evil; can't you see no one is paying attention to you?" He answered, "I'll tell you why I continue. In the beginning, I thought I would change people. Today, I know I cannot. Yet, if I continue my protest, at least I will prevent others from changing me." I'm not that pessimistic that we can't change people's beliefs or that people will not respond to the message of liberty and peace. But we must always be on guard not to let others change us once we gain the confidence that we are on the right track in the search for truth." --
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politics
confidence
truth
elie-wiesel
ron-paul
liberty
peace
protest
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Ron Paul |
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How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not only memories that hover on the border. There are all sorts of phantasmagoria that inhabit that realm. The nightmares of a lonely child. Fairy tales appropriated by a mind hungry for a story. The fantasies of an imaginative little girl anxious to explain to herself the inexplicable. Whatever story I may have discovered on the frontier of forgetting, I do not pretend to myself that is the truth.
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memories
truth
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Diane Setterfield |
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...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become
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risk
fear
change
heart
love
truth
realization
see
understand
result
realize
outcome
worry
danger
threaten
soul
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Robin Hobb |
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True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.
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hate
truth
enemy
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Elie Wiesel |
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I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market.
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time
man
woman
true
men
women
change
love
truth
discover
elixir
familiar
potion
sincere
find
know
charm
sincerity
playboy
knowledge
delight
minstrel
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Robin Hobb |
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The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.
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reality
truth
physicality
web
danger
internet
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Margaret Atwood |
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I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!
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sadness
love
truth
revelation
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Robin Hobb |
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No peace is possible between the novelist and the agelaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having heard God's laughter, the agelastes are convinced that the truth is obvious, that all men necessarily think the same thing, and that they themselves are exactly what they think they are. But it is precisely in losing the certainty of truth and the unanimous agreement of others that man becomes an individual. The novel is the imaginary paradise of individuals. It is the territory where no one possesses the truth, neither Anna nor Karenin, but where everyone has the right to be understood, both Anna and Karenin.
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laughter
truth
uniformity
essay
individual
art
uncertainty
novel
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Milan Kundera |
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We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
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trust
truth
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Frank Herbert |
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Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.
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writing
truth
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Lewis Carroll |
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You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?
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hatred
thoughts
feelings
passion
beauty
life
love
truth
bourgeois
despise
horrid
refusal
snobbish
snob
classes
nasty
snobbishness
class
beautiful
thought
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John Fowles |
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It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.
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reality
truth
medium
revolution
media
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Jean Baudrillard |
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...but no one was interested in the facts. They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly.
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hatred
truth
fake-news
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James Baldwin |
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There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.
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truth
lying-to-ourselves
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A.J. Hartley and David Hewson |
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"Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. "You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up."
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writing
truth
writing-advice
teachers
storytelling
stories
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Betty Smith |
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O thanatos einai panta apo monos tou mia apodeixe eilikrineias.
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philosophical
truth
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Graham Greene |
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"But I cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the I have to worry about the truth that can be And that is the difference between losing your marbles drinking the salty sea, or swallowing the stuff from the streams. My Niece-of-Shame believes in the talking cure, eh?" says Alsana, with something of a grin. "Talk, talk, talk and it will be better. Be honest, slice open your heart and spread the red stuff around. But the past is made of more than words, dearie. We married old men, you see? These bumps"--Alsana pats them both --"they will always have daddy-long-legs for fathers. One leg in the present, one in the past. No talking will change this. Their roots will always be tangled. And roots get dug up. Just look in my garden - birds at the coriander every bloody day..."
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sanity
future
honesty
past
truth
pregnancy
relativism
worrying
talking
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Zadie Smith |
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Don't you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at--truth and kindness? Let's have both if we can, but let's be sure of having one or the other.
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truth
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E.M. Forster |
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Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish
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love-quotes
truth
inspirational
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Mitch Albom |
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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truth
fake-news
journalism
news
propaganda
media
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Thomas Sowell |
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People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much. A single avenue of reasoning followed to its logical conclusion would bring them straight home to the truth. But they stop just short of it, over and over again. When they have only to reach out and grasp the idea that would explain everything, they decide that the search is hopeless. The search is never hopeless. There is no haystack so large that the needle in it cannot be found. But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.
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truth
searching-and-finding
questioning
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William Maxwell |
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This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.
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truth
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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truth
inspirational-living
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Gregory Maguire |
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The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of all experience - the awareness of the experiencing organism and the stable entities and structures it encounters - and erects them as separate and distinct entities called subjects and objects. What disembodied realism ... misses is that, as embodied, imaginative creatures, we never were separated or divorced from reality in the first place. What has always made science possible is our embodiment, not our transcendence of it, and our imagination, not our avoidance of it.
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reason
imagination
science
truth
embodied-realism
relativism
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George Lakoff |
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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
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mankind
humanity
fear
truth
ambitious-minds
ambitious-people
driven
idlesness
self-motivated
haunted
human-condition
grace
self-loathing
self-hate
fall
fire
pride
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Joseph Conrad |
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Science's skeptical core makes it a poor competitor for human hearts and minds, which recoil from its ongoing controversies and prefer the security of seemingly eternal truths. If the scientific approach were just one more interpretation of the cosmos, it would never have amounted to much; but science's big-time success rests on the fact that it works. If you board an aircraft built according to science - with principles that have survived numerous attempts to prove them wrong - you have a far better chance of reaching your destination than you do in an aircraft constructed by the rules of Vedic astrology.
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truth
scientific-approach
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Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconsciousness knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times, it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than the joining of bodies.
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trust
truth
outlander
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Diana Gabaldon |
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In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, -- , , Theodore Parker, -- who had really spoken to disciples rather than to the nation, seemed to have contributed something to form this organ by which their voice could reach the people. . The wonderful power which Washington's Attorney-general, Edmund Randolph, ascribed to of insinuating his ideas equally into learned and unlearned had passed from 's pen to 's tongue. . { }
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laughter
sympathy
emotion
poetry
morality
reason
imagination
friendship
humor
love
truth
wisdom
inspirational
lecture
henry-d-thoreau
henry-thoreau
mirth
orator
pathos
ralph-e-emerson
ralph-emerson
ralph-waldo-emerson
some-mistakes-of-moses
henry-david-thoreau
ingersoll
robert-g-ingersoll
robert-green-ingersoll
robert-ingersoll
emerson
memorable
praise
boston
art
thoreau
simplicity
paine
thomas-paine
tears
respect
logic
honor
power
speech
voice
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Moncure Daniel Conway |
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"Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding."
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truth
avoiding
being-nice
eq
uncomfortable
emotional-intelligence
avoidance
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Daniel Goleman |
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For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up on his own free will is a monster. That is why Sabina did not suffer in the least from having to keep her love a secret. On the contrary, only by doing so could she live the truth.
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truth
public
private
privacy
secrets
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Milan Kundera |
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vivre dans la verite, ne mentir ni a soi-meme ni aux autres, ce n'est possible qu'a la condition de vivre sans public. Des lors qu'il y a un temoin a nos actes, nous nous adaptons bon gre mal gre aux yeux qui nous observent, et plus rien de ce que nous faisons n'est vrai. Avoir un public, penser a un public, c'est vivre dans le mensonge (partie III, ch. 7)
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living
truth
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Milan Kundera |
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I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, 'in anguish,' nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody's begun to lie and because they lie they assume that I lie too: they overlook the fact that I remember very well many things (of course I've forgotten some...) I do believe that lying is a sin, unless it's innocent lie based on lack of memory, certainly the giving of false evidence and being a false witness is a mortal sin, but what I mean is, insofar as lying has become so prevalent in the world today (thanks to Marxian Dialectical propaganda and Comitern techniques among other causes) that, when a man tells the truth, everybody, looking in the mirror and seeing a liar... ...like those LSD heads in newspaper photographs who sit in parks gazing rapturously at the sky to show how high they are when they're only victims momentarily of a contraction of the blood vessels and nerves in the brain that causes the illusion...
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lying
illusion
truth
marxian-dialectical-propaganda
lsd
lie
sin
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Jack Kerouac |
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Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
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truth
warnings
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Bernard Cornwell |
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Truth is ever feeble against passionate falsehood.
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truth
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Bernard Cornwell |
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The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself.
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politics
philosophy
truth
system
welfare
the-self
state
psychology
mental-health
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C.G. Jung |
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They used to call it the 'Great War'. But I'll be damned if I could tell you what was so 'great' about it. They also called it 'the war to end all wars'...'cause they figured it was so big and awful that the world'd just have to come to its senses and make damn sure we never fought another one ever again. That woulda been a helluva nice story. But the truth's got an ugly way of killin' nice stories.
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war
truth
world-war-i
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Max Brooks |
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Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.
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good
joy
truth
sad
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Robert Ludlum |
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What is new is that we know so very much about the world, or at least the part of it that is most picturesquely exploding on any given day, that we're left with a desperate sense that all of it is exploding, all the time. As far as I can tell, that is the intent and purpose of television news. We see so much, understand so little, and are simultaneously told so much about What We Think, as a populace polled minute by minute, that is begins to feel like an extraneous effort to listen at all to our hearts.
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television
truth
news
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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""I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad's John D. MacDonald-but then I went to regular school and the English teachers started telling me to read 'real' books, so I tried. And you know, I kinda went off reading for a while. I had already been reading literary novels and the classics mixed in with whatever else, but-" She waved a hand. "So I went back to reading whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted to-reading had been my greatest pleasure in all the world. I mean I never really watched all that much television, because we were moving around, never really had solid digs until I was thirteen, so reading was everything."
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reading
truth
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Barbara O'Neal |
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
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truth
dissemble
moron
reveal
hide
lie
fool
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Robin Hobb |
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"By eroding their sense of shame we've made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. ...their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if he should now avoid. I was delighted one of them said, "This is a great movie--only one sex scene, and the f-word's only used a few times." 'Titanic' is one of my favorites. How many Christian young people have watched it in their own homes? Think of it, Squaltaint. Suppose someone in the youth group said to the boys, 'There's an attractive girl down the street. Let's get together and go look through her window and watch her undress and lay back on a couch and pose naked from the waist up. Then this girl and her boyfriend will get in a car and have sex--let's get as close as we can and listen to them and watch the windows steam up.' The strategy would never work. They'd know immediately it was wrong. But you can get them to do exactly the same thing by using a television instead of a window. That's all is takes! Think of it, Squaltaint. Every day Christians across the country, including many squadron leaders, watch women and men undress and commit acts of fornication and adultery the Enemy calls an abomination. We've made them a bunch of voyeurs! Churches full of peeping toms."
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sex
television
faith
truth
entertainment
movies
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Randy Alcorn |
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If memory is unreliable, if the past and the present can simply change without warning, then fact and truth will cease to exist. How do we live in a world like that?
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reality
truth
memory
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Blake Crouch |
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I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they'd met me.
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achievement-and-attitude
achievement-gap
achieving-dreams
achieving-excellence
achieving-mastery
achieving-success
arriving
evangelical
evangelistic
happiness-quote
personal-planning
professional-listening
sales-advice
sales-effectiveness
selling
success-in-business
perseverance
successful-living
success
happiness
truth
success-self-improvement
listening-to-others
achievements
success-in-life
tenacity
success-strategies
business
presentation
moving-forward
reputation
doing
listening-skills
evangelism
success-quotes
listening
sales
sales-training
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Chris Murray |
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"Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty. 'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.' They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'. 'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me."
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goodness
truth
girls
teacher
safety
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Muriel Spark |
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Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.
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truth
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Karen Hawkins |
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...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic--just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by her, or the revelations of Saint John the Divine as being that troubled soul's 'real' experiences--without needing also to accept that, had one been standing next to the Prophet of Islam on Mount Hira that day, one would also have seen the Archangel.
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reality
truth
revelation
stories
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Salman Rushdie |
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What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.
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lies
truth
hilary-mantel
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Hilary Mantel |
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Finding happiness by delivering it.
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|
achievement-and-attitude
achievement-gap
achieving-dreams
achieving-excellence
achieving-mastery
achieving-success
arriving
evangelical
evangelistic
happiness-quote
personal-planning
professional-listening
sales-advice
sales-effectiveness
selling
success-in-business
perseverance
successful-living
success
happiness
truth
success-self-improvement
listening-to-others
achievements
success-in-life
tenacity
success-strategies
business
presentation
moving-forward
reputation
doing
listening-skills
evangelism
success-quotes
listening
sales
sales-training
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Chris Murray |
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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
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|
mankind
humanity
fear
truth
ambitious-minds
ambitious-people
driven
idlesness
self-motivated
haunted
human-condition
grace
self-loathing
self-hate
fall
fire
pride
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Joseph Conrad |
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You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untank-like as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong, you might as well have the brain if a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and them you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill equipped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words, and then proposing that there word people are closer to the real thing than we mangle with our ignorance every day? The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful consideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that - well, lucky you.
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illusion
truth
judgement
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Philip Roth |
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You had an image of life inside you, a belief or an ideal, that you were ready to do good deeds, to suffer, and to sacrifice - and by degrees you noticed that the world had no need of your good deeds, or sacrifices, and such like; that life was not an heroic tale, with roles for heroes, and such like, but a comfortable bourgeois parlour, where one is perfectly satisfied with eating and drinking, coffee and knitted stockings, tarot readings and music on the radio. And he who wants otherwise and has the heroic and the beautiful inside him, the veneration of great poets or the adoration of saints inside him, he is a fool and a knight errant, a latter day Don Quixote?
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truth
wisdom
life-philosophy
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Hermann Hesse |
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The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways--that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.
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life
truth
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Will Schwalbe |
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...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.
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truth
stranger
return
cost
evaluate
look
result
think
home
regret
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Robin Hobb |
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She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.
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humor
truth
mother
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Run after truth until you're breathless. Accept the pain involved in re-creating yourself afresh. These ideas will take a life to comprehend, a hard one interspersed with drunken moments.
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life
truth
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Naguib Mahfouz |
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Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden.
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truth
move-on
paradise
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James Baldwin |
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With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they're happy.
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reality
hope
life
truth
lie
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Alle menschlichen Fehler sind Ungeduld, ein vorzeitiges Abbrechen des Methodischen, ein scheinbares Einpfahlen der scheinbaren Sache.
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life
philosophy
truth
sin
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Franz Kafka |
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You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or run away from it, it will find you down the road.
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truth
hiding-the-facts
karen-essex
mina-harker
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Karen Essex |
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She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened.
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truth
writing-craft
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John Irving |
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Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.
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light
freedom
meaning
reason
darkness
optimism
heart
truth
falsehood
optimists
public
scheme
schemes
unreason
feeling
feel
plans
debate
plan
equal
believe
vitality
nonsense
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Roger Scruton |
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Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn't listen.
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achievement-and-attitude
achievement-gap
achieving-dreams
achieving-excellence
achieving-mastery
achieving-success
arriving
evangelical
evangelistic
personal-planning
professional-listening
sales-advice
sales-effectiveness
selling
success-in-business
perseverance
successful-living
success
truth
success-self-improvement
listening-to-others
achievements
success-in-life
tenacity
success-strategies
business
presentation
moving-forward
reputation
doing
listening-skills
evangelism
success-quotes
listening
sales
sales-training
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Chris Murray |
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I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance.
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youth
love
truth
mario-puzo
omerta
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Mario Puzo |
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Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance and lies were often underrated. Most people Brendan knew couldn't make it through the day without a saucerful of ignorance and a side of lies.
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lies
truth
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Dennis Lehane |
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As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.
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fiction
truth
handwritten
lasting
pen
second-sight
where
prologue
girls
ghosts
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Richard Peck |
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"It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd made public his own discomfort. 'Peter Freyd is my brother, Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and sister-in-law,' he explained. Peter and Pamela had grown up together as step-siblings. 'There is no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse in the home of Peter and Pam, while they were raising their daughters,' he wrote. He challenged Peter Freyd's claims that he had been misunderstood, that he merely had a 'ribald' sense of humour. 'Those of us who had to endure it, remember it as abusive at best and viciously sadistic at worst.' He added that, in his view, 'The False memory Syndrome Foundation is designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape.' He felt that there is no such thing as a false memory syndrome.' Criticising the media for its uncritical embrace of the Freyds' campaign, he cautioned:
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lies
story
influence
reality
truth
bias
biased
child-abuse
child-rape
enabling-abuse
fabrication
false-memory
fmsf
freyd
jennifer-freyd
objective
paedophile
pamela-freyd
peter-freyd
protecting-pedophiles
sadistic
sex-abuse
underwager
flawed
pedophile
denial
deny
siblings
media
surprise
child-sexual-abuse
incest
false-memory-syndrome-foundation
psychology
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Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell |
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"The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her"
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wealth
women
truth
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Edith Wharton |
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The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
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words
truth
patterns
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David Mitchell |
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At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength.
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inspiration
strength
truth
inspirational-quote
promise
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Tania Elizabeth |
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The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves.
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thoughts
truth
sheep
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Ray Bradbury |
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"When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past... but only feminine avenues... Yet there's a place no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot - into both feminine and masculine pasts... Many men have tried the drug... so many, but none has succeeded." "They tried and failed, all of them?" "They tried and died."
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fear
truth
masculine
feminine
failure
memory
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Frank Herbert |
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"First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely eyed realists. And millions and millions of men who are anything but. However. For lack of a better term I would say that the feminine values are the values of america : Sensitivity is more important than Truth. Feelings are more important than Facts. Commitment is more important than Individuality. Children are more important than People. Safety is more important than Fun.
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truth-telling
marriage
feminism
truth
marriage-humor
married-men
mens-rights
the-red-pill
culture
masculinity
femininity
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