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• When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.

  Tennessee Williams

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

  Georg Brandes

  Pain, Men, Age

  "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.

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• I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate... but I don't have... a central cause... a motivating cause, I don't know what that would be... other than trying to tell the truth when I work.

  Jennifer Beals

  Strong, Trying, Causes

  Interview with Jian Gomeshi on CBC Radio One's show "Q", February 16,2011.

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• How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

  Eric Hoffer

  Artist, Vegetables, Meat

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Ignorance, Reality, Names

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

  Ted Cruz

  Hate, Months, Republican

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• Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

  Glen Duncan

  Beautiful, Truth, Ugly

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• The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Lying, Mouths

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• Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

  Eva LaRue

  Mom, Doe

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• Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Stories, Want

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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• One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind of conventional relationship to adversity. Things aren't always easy and rather than being taught to have kindness to ourselves and others in the light of that we're taught something very different; that it's wrong and rejected - that's a lot of conditioning to step away from.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Adversity, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Feb 11, 2015

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• It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

  Adrian Rogers

  Hurt, Lying, Errors

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• I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what is going on, and to understand the connection between the news media and the instruments of repression in Amerika. All I have is my voice, my spirit and the will to tell the truth. But I sincerely ask, those of you in the Black media, those of you in the progressive media, those of you who believe in true freedom, to publish this statement and to let people know what is happening. We have no voice, so you must be the voice of the voiceless.

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Media, Voice

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• To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

  Harold Russell

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

  Michael Keaton

  Giants, Roles, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Fifth Amendment, Way, Privilege

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• What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  Ted Cruz

  Simple, Two, Said

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Leader, Challenges

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Night, Men, Speech

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lying, Merit, Habit

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, War, Believe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.853, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Four Rules of Life:
  1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

  Bill Vaughan

  Upset, Attention, Four

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• Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

  Erica Jong

  America, Outcomes, Matter

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.9, Penguin

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• But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Soil, Common

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• As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

  Bernard Berenson

  Lying, Home, Would Be

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