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• I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

  Fidel Castro

  Years, Doubt, Should

  "Hi, Fidel, this is Vicente, could I ask a favor of you?". Interview with Mexican President Vicente Fox compiled and translated by Achy Obejas, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 2, 2002.

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• Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Important, Uncomfortable, Feels

  FaceBook post by Jennifer Lopez from Sep 17, 2014

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• When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth - that men are only equal - can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

  Marilyn French

  Simple, Men, Culture

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, People, Confusion

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

  Lucille Clifton

  Children, Life Is, Radical

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• I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Loving Yourself, Loving You, Bigs

  Iyanla Vanzant (1999). “Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

  Amy Dickinson

  Friends, Reflection, Doors

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• When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."

  Eddie Izzard

  Strong, Sex, Sorry

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 13, 1999.

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• August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures he's killed speak to him reproachfully, and he shares that with us, because wouldn't we all? Parties abound in this collection and reading it feels like being invited. You can tell Smith wants you there.

  Matthew Rohrer

  Children, Reading, Party

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• We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Lying, Trying

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Death in The Life”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• [On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Lying, President, Richard'm Nixon

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• I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Christian, Children

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  A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

  Richard Pryor

  Art, Lying, World

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• I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.

  John Updike

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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• If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Truth, Power, Speak

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

  Tucker Max

  Defense, Truth Is, Libel

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Eye, Looks, Want

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• I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

  Ben Affleck

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Ben Affleck speech before the 2nd Annual Save the Children Illumination Gala, www.dailymail.co.uk. November, 2014.

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• For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

  Taylor Schilling

  Being Yourself, Actors, World

  "Daring Talk: Orange is the New Black". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 22, 2013.

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• People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

  Eric Idle

  Lying, People

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• Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is!

  Muriel Lester

  Bullying, People, Suggestions

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

  Subhash Kak

  Animal, Men, Acting

  "The Prajna-sutras: Aphorisms of Intuition". Book by Subhash Kak, 2007.

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• I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

  Frances Hardinge

  Hated, Locked

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  Unita Blackwell

  War, Writing, Government

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• The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Confession, Ends, Oneself

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