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• I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

  Nick Vujicic

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

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• Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.

  John Templeton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Unique

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• Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Imagination, World

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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• We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

  Hesiod

  Truth, Real, Speak

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• There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

  Edouard Manet

  Paint, Humbug

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• Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Worry, Second Thoughts, Stylish

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• I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

  John Green

  Love, Romantic, Eye

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• start with one true thing

  C.E. Murphy

  C.E. Murphy (2009). “Urban Shaman”, p.286, LUNA

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• But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

  John Green

  Powerful, Doctors, Orange Juice

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Kindness, Lying

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• Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.

  James A. Owen

  Fall, Flames, True Power

  James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Cat, People

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Shameless

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Writing, Stories

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• If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Mind, Able

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.28, Springer

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• The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Way, Shows

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.28, HarperCollins

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• I choose my love for Lucinda," he called to Heaven and Earth, to the angels all around him and the ones who weren't there. To the soul of the one true thing he loved the most, wherever she was. "I now reaffirm my choice: I choose Lucinda over everything. And I will until the end." -Daniel Grigori, Passion

  Lauren Kate

  Passion, Angel, Choices

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.853, Delacorte Press

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• I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

  John Green

  Stars, Love You, Happy Valentines Day

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.90, Penguin

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• Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Eye, People

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Publicity, Bedtime, Promotion

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• Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Publicity, Sometimes, Promotion

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• It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.

  Harriet Lerner

  Running, Brave, Want

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Sep 23, 2016

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• There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

  Edouard Manet

  Paint, Begin Again, Humbug

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• For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

  Helen Vendler

  Self, Expression, Criticism

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• We writers  – and especially writers for children, but all writers –  have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Lying, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.15, HarperCollins

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