- Eyes
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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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- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are absorbed in a biographical subject, you get so close you don't realise the potential effect of what you say. You are trying to get at the truth.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.
- Poison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
- Pursuit
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- Nov 07, 2020