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• In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

  Fred Ward

  Friends, Lying, Play

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• Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

  Robert Breault

  Funny, Truth, Lying

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• I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Children, Powerful

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• I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

  Anita Desai

  Romance, Fantasy, Aim

  Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

  Paul Weyrich

  Truth, Believe, Issues

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• If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.

  Richard S. Salant

  America, Boss, Might

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• I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

  August Sander

  Hate, People, Age

  August Sander (1996). “August Sander: "In photography there are no unexplained shadows!" : an exhibition organised by the August Sander Archive, Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse, Cologne, and shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London”, Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns

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• When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Children, Real, African American

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.179, Kodansha America

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• Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hurt, Behaviour, Difficulty

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.306

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• On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Rip, Chance

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• A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Liars, He Lied

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Divinatione, II. 71, p. 485-87, 1922.

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• The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

  Susan Sontag

  Jobs, Lying, Voice

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.193, Macmillan

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• For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Farewell, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  Sam Rayburn

  Remember, Never Forget, Said

  "An Old Friend Writes of Rayburn". U.S. News & World Report, (p. 72), October 23, 1961.

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• Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

  Walter Cronkite

  Tasks, Opinion, Jew

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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Criticism, Important, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”

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• In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

  Walter Cronkite

  Freedom, Years, News

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• Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly. This is true about Mr. Wilson now and it has been true about all our Presidents in the past. It is our duty at all times to tell the truth about the President and about every one else, save in the cases where to tell the truth at the moment would benefit the public enemy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Past, Support

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

  Azar Nafisi

  Women, Writing, Existence

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• It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

  George Harrison

  Lying, Expression, Easier

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• Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.

  Lisa Loeb

  Expression, Taffy, Sometimes

  Song: Taffy, Album: Tails

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• WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

  Grover Cleveland

  "An Honest President". Book by H. Paul Jeffers, 2000.

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• I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Thinking, Existential

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "Pessimism and Tyranny", 1960.

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• it's always best to tell the truth.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Tales from India”, p.253, General Press

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• I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Believe, Truthful, Being Truthful

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