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• Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

  Mort Sahl

  Lying, Apology, Differences

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• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Sadness, Hands

  "Zadie Smith's rules for writers" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, People, Intimate

  "On the beginning" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2006.

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• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Truth, Should Have, Voice

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• So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

  John Travolta

  Truth, Reality, Outrageous

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• I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Careers, Politician

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• I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hurt

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Dad, Fighting

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  Randy Pausch

  Karma, Believe, People

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

  Gene Wilder

  Talking, Ifs

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• The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

  Jane Kenyon

  Beautiful, Jobs, Truth

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• To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Honesty, People

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

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• The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, People, Confusion

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Truth, Power, Speak

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• [On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Lying, President, Richard'm Nixon

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• When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth - that men are only equal - can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

  Marilyn French

  Simple, Men, Culture

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Christian, Children

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• telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

  Lucille Clifton

  Children, Life Is, Radical

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• We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Lying, Trying

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Death in The Life”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

  Amy Dickinson

  Friends, Reflection, Doors

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• August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures he's killed speak to him reproachfully, and he shares that with us, because wouldn't we all? Parties abound in this collection and reading it feels like being invited. You can tell Smith wants you there.

  Matthew Rohrer

  Children, Reading, Party

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• When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."

  Eddie Izzard

  Strong, Sex, Sorry

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 13, 1999.

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• Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Important, Uncomfortable, Feels

  FaceBook post by Jennifer Lopez from Sep 17, 2014

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• I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

  Tucker Max

  Defense, Truth Is, Libel

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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  A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

  Richard Pryor

  Art, Lying, World

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