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  Truth Quotes - The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read   “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.” ― Jane Austen, Emma   “The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin   “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy   “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace ...

  Truth Quotes - Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable   “When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.” ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice   “There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.” ― Stefan Molyneux   “Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.” ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept   “You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant   “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” ― Voltaire   “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered...

  Truth Quotes - There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful   “You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.” ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men   “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” ― Steve Jobs   “Does truth have a moral?” ― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters   “The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers. Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy readers have their own snobbishness. I’ll ...

  Truth Quotes - One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age   “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses   “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” ― Oscar Wilde   “It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.” ― Ally Carter, Heist Society   “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” ― Andre Gide   “Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.” ― Dorothy L. Sayers   “Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.” ― Greg B...