- Life
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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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, a lot of people go to drag shows, really, for very light entertainment, and I think sometimes maybe we don't even give the audiences enough credit as to what they'd be down for.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first read 'Lolita' when I was 16, which I think is a little bit young. But it was a thrilling and disturbing read because it was the first time I really sensed that you could have an unreliable narrator, that you didn't have to sort of tell the truth in a narrative, that there could be something deeper and richer and more complicated going on.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is something so compelling about the truth that whether you're a lawyer or judge or an actor, when you get at that truth, it connects with people on a particular level that I think makes your art more viable.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020