- Police
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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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- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to embrace their own truth, light and joy.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Admitting the truth would have meant exposing us all. We spent our first decade in the country learning the ways of the new land and trying to fit in. Having a slave did not fit. Having a slave gave me grave doubts about what kind of people we were, what kind of place we came from.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a pundit, I have to tell the truth. I think players will respect that. Well, I hope they do.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more religions are fixated on having a dogmatic sense of truth, the more likely they are to blow each other up. So being open to God as a creative principle could provide for a new kind of dialogue between the faiths, which I think is crucial at this time.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020