#true

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. ↗

— Penelope Fitzgerald

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Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. ↗

— Robert J. Flaherty

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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