Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 40

• In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

  Lauren Groff

  Lying, Writing, Fiction

  Lauren Groff (2012). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.10, Random House

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Justice, Principles

  6 Copy quote

• But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

  Robin McKinley

  Trying, Stuff, Used

  Robin Mckinley (2007). “Dragonhaven”, p.11, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Music, Wisdom

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

  358 Copy quote

  Show source

• The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Lying, Race

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some would ask which country am I from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said it is the country next to Pakistan.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, India, Pakistan

  "The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Sheep, Needs

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.3, Anchor

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Learning Something New, Views, World

  Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.17, Duke University Press

  193 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

  Tennessee Williams

  People, Giving, Magic

  "A Streetcar Named Desire".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

  Margaret Atwood

  Philosophy, Sight, Medicine

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.256, Anchor

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Pain, Thinking, Done

  20 Copy quote

• Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.107, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

  Dorothy Allison

  Heart, Character, Needs

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.142, Open Road Media

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Girl, Boys, Practice

  Alain Robbe-Grillet (2015). “La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

  Sarah Dessen

  Winning, Boys, Said

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 11, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing is drearier than just always telling the truth about yourself. Rousseau, who as far as I can tell was a pathological liar, made this wonderful distinction between lying, which he said there was something wrong with if you were trying to extract an advantage for yourself or evade responsibility for some nasty thing you'd done. But if all you're really trying to do is impress or keep it young or make life more vivid and interesting, go for it! There's no real harm in doing something like that. I think people can be overly saddled to the truth.

  Lawrence Douglas

  Real, Liars, Lying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Lying, People, Bullshit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth through fiction. And this idea also comes from nuclear physics.

  Momus

  Art, Lying, Physics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• More and more, and especially over the last two decades, we've found out how many conspiracies there actually are. We really don't know the exact truth about a lot of things. We know there are big things going on involving huge companies and industries, whether it's money involved or oil or things in their own country, but there are personal interests at play and it's a very well woven network that's hard to break down. Sometimes it is hard, for us, to know who is telling the truth.

  Thekla Reuten

  Country, Sometimes, Conspiracy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Fall, Men

  Source: www.wbur.org

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Believe, People, Politician

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel that a documentarian has an obligation to tell the truth as he or she interprets it. And what I mean by that is that documentarians don't necessarily have the same sort of obligations that a journalist might have. A journalist might be called upon to be objective, whereas a documentarian is sort of forced to take sides.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Mean, Obligation, Journalist

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's my job to tell the truth.

  Arne Duncan

  Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Try to keep your mouth shut until you have a job offer, especially if your move is not entirely certain. There are only a few cases in which I think it would be appropriate to tell your boss what's going on. For example, if your spouse is being forced to relocate, obviously you are going to go, and if you have a good relationship with your boss, then it might take some stress off of you to tell the truth. The general rule, though, is not to give your employer more power over your destiny than you have yourself.

  Alexandra Levit

  Stress, Moving, Destiny

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it were a string of stories. And if it's told well enough and in a way that's charming and warm and with wit and humor, then it takes a bit of the edge off of it. You can still tell the truth, but if you tell it very sweetly and very warmly, it makes it go down a bit easier.

  Kadir Nelson

  Mean, Enough, Charming

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  14 Copy quote

  Show source