#tru

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy. ↗

— Boris Becker

#autobiography #close #coming #honesty #much

Our first intuitions are the true ones. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#intuitions #ones #our #true

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#hope #lost #say #truly #would

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ↗

— Alexander Berkman

#manhood #spirit #true #war #your

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#called #depends #government #honest #longer

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#construction #doing #doing good #give #good

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#life #truth #experience

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. ↗

— Edward Bond

#got #plausible #stage #truth

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#bitter #bitter truth #chose #covered #eyes

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#could #dollars #eat #got #high