#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

You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!! ↗

— Abhijeet Sawant

#lies #trust #life

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #straight #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

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#answers #anxiety #away #disturbing #honest

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ↗

— Merry Browne

#elegance #honesty #needs

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#enough #few #few men #honest #i

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#baltimore #being #being honest #beloved #better

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! ↗

— David Pratt

#actions #being #being honest #called #holding