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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.

Last Updated on Nov 07, 2020

Nov 07, 2020

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

Nov 07, 2020

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

Nov 07, 2020

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

True
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Nov 07, 2020

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

Hope
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Nov 07, 2020

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

Nov 07, 2020

Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection. You say what you have to say in the way you have to say it to give it media currency - and that's always far from the truth. Often, in fact, someone else says it for you. It's all planned. It's all rehearsed.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

Nov 07, 2020

If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

Nov 07, 2020

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes you just have to write some days off, and I know that's a terrible thing to say, but it's the truth.

A sports quote recalls expecting a narrower career path, while another treats the camera as an unflinching judge of what's real on screen. Continue with Belief or Suvichar.

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