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• Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

  Meister Eckhart

  Life, Truth, Writing

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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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• 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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• Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

  John Steinbeck

  Mistress, Dangerous, Stills

  John Steinbeck (1953). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck”, New York : Viking Press

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• I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Really True, Right Thing

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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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• 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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• start with one true thing

  C.E. Murphy

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

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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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• It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

  David Levithan

  Simple, Complicated

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.

  Andrea Barrett

  Writing, Self, Breathing

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• Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.

  Winston Churchill

  Diversity, Common, Celebrate

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• There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in.

  Kid Cudi

  Goal, Navy, Energy

  "Complex's Kid Cudi Cover Story: The Uncut Interview Outtakes". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. August 15, 2009.

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• You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Creative, Missing

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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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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• There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Painting, Wells, Ifs

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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• Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

  Eric Maisel

  Pain, Blessing, Suffering

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.123, Penguin

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• Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Love You, Eye

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.

  Roseanne Barr

  Get Away, Paid

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you. Similarly, you write true things or good things, and end by thinking things true or good simply because you write them

  Randall Jarrell

  Strong, Writing, Thinking

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Poets: Old, New, and Aging" (p. 44), 1980.

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• The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Vitality, Use

  John Ruskin (2012). “Selections From the Works of John Ruskin”, p.303, tredition

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