If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.
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