Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 37

• My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Inspirational, Morning, Sorry

  "No Country for Old Men". Book by Cormac McCarthy, July 19, 2005.

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• Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

  Moderata Fonte

  Believe, Men, Facts

  Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

  Patrick Marber

  Lying, Want, I Can

  "Closer". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

  Philip Roth

  Love You, Force

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, January 12, 1969.

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  As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Truth, Writing, Character

  "The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2015.

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• The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beauty, Courage, Honesty

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• None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

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• I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

  Frank Portman

  Lying, Mean, Class

  Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.238, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mean, Thinking, Behinds

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Giant”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Inspiring, Lying, Sometimes

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• I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mood, Foul

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• No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

  Nancy Werlin

  Hate, People, Okay

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• At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

  Deb Caletti

  Art, Lying, Struggle

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• He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Honesty, Mean

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Want, Language

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

  Benjamin Carson

  Truth, Honesty, Worry

  "Ben Carson Says Honesty Is More Important Than Political Experience" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. November 6, 2015.

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• This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Opportunity, Simple

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• I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

  Deb Caletti

  People, Sometimes, Truth To Yourself

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Book, Hero, Cheerful

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• The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Depressing, Mind, Looks

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• But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Dying, Scare

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• People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.

  Mark Haddon

  Mean, Smell, People

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• Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

  Doris Lessing

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Doris May Lessing (1981). “The Golden Notebook”, Bantam

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• Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

  Philip Pullman

  Lying, Reality, Oxford

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• You're a liar!" He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Liars, Home, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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