Telling The Truth Quotes - Page 9

• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Sadness, Hands

  "Zadie Smith's rules for writers" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, People, Intimate

  "On the beginning" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2006.

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• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Truth, Should Have, Voice

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• So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

  John Travolta

  Truth, Reality, Outrageous

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• I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Careers, Politician

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• I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hurt

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Dad, Fighting

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  Randy Pausch

  Karma, Believe, People

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

  Gene Wilder

  Talking, Ifs

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• The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

  Jane Kenyon

  Beautiful, Jobs, Truth

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• To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Honesty, People

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

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

  Eric Idle

  Lying, People

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

  J. M. Coetzee

  Confession, Ends, Oneself

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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