- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
- Imperfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
This life is a test, and we're put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.
- Floods
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- Nov 07, 2020