#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

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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

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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

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

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I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. ↗

— Eric Carr

#i #just #lie #own #people

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either. ↗

— Bear Bryant

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I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

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Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

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