#telling the truth

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #deal #give

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#making #making up #other #statistics #telling

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#job #professionalism #seriously #take #telling

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

#because #involves #poetry #political #political act

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. ↗

— June Jordan

#deep #each #feel #get #herself

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#being #ever #human #human being #i

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #gods #often #one thing #pray