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• And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

  Isabel Allende

  Successful, Important, Benefits

  "Big Think Interview With Isabel Allende". Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

  "Charlie Kaufman on Synecdoche, New York". Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 22, 2008.

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• A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Pain, Children

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. What does this mean to them? How are they changed by it, or not? I remember being a little nervous, as I am when writing any high-stakes, intense scene (death, sex, grief, joy).

  Madeline Miller

  Jobs, Sex, Grief

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.

  Julie Delpy

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Julie Delpy – ‘Lolo’". www.indiewire.com. September 16, 2015.

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• We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works.

  Andrew Saul

  Healing, Taught, Natural

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being committed to truth. Truth is simple. And no matter how simply a truth is stated, only those who have walked the path of understanding and evolution on their own can know and understand it authentically. The path of truth is the path least traveled. Authenticity is the clarity of being in which there is no self-deceit.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Spiritual, Simple, Self

  Source: evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com

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• Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Distance, Race

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.

  Stromae

  Growing Up, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  People, Fiction, Poverty

  Source: slushpile.net

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• Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Adventure, Destiny, Men

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• I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

  Stephen Schneider

  Funny, Integrity, Games

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• Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".

  Philip Schultz

  Emotional, Expression, Order

  Source: poems.com

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• In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Fiction, Way, Stranger

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Perfect, Needs

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• All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Strong

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• Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Lying

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• I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Literary Theory, Yale

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.

  John Hodgman

  Yale, Ideas, Feet

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

  John Hodgman

  Thinking, Awful

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beauty, Instruments, Knows

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: A Game of Thrones, Dreamsongs: Volume I, Fevre Dream, Armageddon Rag”, p.1045, Bantam

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• You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Truth, Honesty, Fancy

  Adlai E. Stevenson's commencement address at Michigan State University, as quoted in The New York Times, June 9, 1958.

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• Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Fruit, Ripe

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• The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth, Men, Culture

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• It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

  William Temple

  Important, Tests, Helping

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