- 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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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020