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• Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Joy, Suffering

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• and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Serious Things, Found

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

  Katy Perry

  Honest, Ill, Okay

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• I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

  Katy Perry

  Bravery, Magic, Secret

  "Katy Conquers All" by Claire Hoffman, www.marieclaire.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

  Harold Prince

  Tradition, Theater, Bigs

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• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Trying, Literature

  "I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV". Interview with Barkha Dutt, www.ndtv.com. January 25, 2012.

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• I can be glib and truthful all at once.

  Richard Russo

  I Can

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• You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

  David Spade

  Depressing, Fun, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

  Rick Springfield

  Song, Writing, Autobiography

  "Rick Springfield on His Sex Addiction, Depression and Attempted Suicide". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Want, Sake, Painting

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• I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish'? Surely that precious word, 'Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely' and that solemn promise, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Lying, Son

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• [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

  Anton Chekhov

  Compassion, Objectivity, Political

  "Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2017.

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• Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.209, Penguin Books India

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• I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Hurt, Thinking, Promise

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

  Virginia Woolf

  Humility, Dark, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.447, Wordsworth Editions

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• He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.

  Anne Stuart

  Love You, Eye, Hands

  Anne Stuart (2005). “Black Ice”, Mira Books

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• TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dumb, Illiterate

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.372, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

  Amy Carmichael

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

  Amy Carmichael (2002). “Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Real, Inspire

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.57, Robert Kiyosaki

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Liars, Lying, Eye

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• The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want Something, White, Would Be

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• To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.

  Francine Prose

  Art, Light, Differences

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• Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Army, Order

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