#honest

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#love #reality #romance #life

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms? ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#honesty #life #sharing #time #life

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. So you just walk home. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #reality #truth #life

Most certainly not. Why face this with honesty and directness? It is so much more fun to dance around the truth, dodge the reality of the situation, which is that you are in love with this man, you share some kind of unhappy past with him...and that he has feelings for you, as well. Why would you ever wish to deal with that head on? ↗

— Jess Michaels

#love

She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.”
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#food #funny #honesty #humor #love

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#crook #doing #fear #honest #honest man

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#historians #history #age

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one’s own age. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#honesty #opinion #time #truth #age

No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#forgiveness #hate #honesty #letting-go #revenge