#be true

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. ↗

— Truman Capote

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Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

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That which is cannot be true. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. ↗

— John Lilly

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her. ↗

— Lorna Luft

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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