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• Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Truth, Real

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Real, Thinking

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

  Rebecca West

  Love, Real, Writing

  "The Art of Scepticism" (1952)

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• The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Real, World Government

  "F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945" edited by Elliott Roosevelt, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (p. 373), 1950.

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• No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Believe, Character

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• Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Real, Lying, Mean

  Susan Wittig Albert (2009). “Wormwood”, p.35, Penguin

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• A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Real, Lying

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• If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Real, Infinity

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.237, Pan Macmillan

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• The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

  Meg Rosoff

  Real, War, Kissing

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• The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Giving, Charity

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• I am the only real truth I know.

  Jean Rhys

  Truth, Real, Acceptance

  Jean Rhys, Isak Dinesen (1978). “Women Fiction 2”

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• The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Names, Tolerance

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Christian, Real

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• The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

  Christopher Nolan

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Real, Aggravation

  "Dreaming Awake at the End of Time". Terence McKenna's speech in San Francisco, www.youtube.com. December 13, 1998.

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• I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Autumn, Dying

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• The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

  Aisha Hinds

  Powerful, Real, Stories

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• The real truths are those that can be invented.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Real

  "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.

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• Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Real, Elude Us, Joy

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• [Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Honesty, Real

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• The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Philosophical, Reflection

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Russell's Logical atomism”

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• Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Real, Taken, Air

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• WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.

  Maimonides

  Real, Reading, Believe

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.159, Aeterna Press

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• What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

  Albert Brooks

  Real, Book, Years

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• sometimes gossip is by far the most reliable source of information about yourself and all your friends, especially in Manhattan. I always say why trust myself when gossip can tell moi the real truth about moi?

  Plum Sykes

  Real, Gossip, Manhattan

  Plum Sykes (2007). “Bergdorf Blondes: A Novel”, Miramax Books

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