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“I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I’ve invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to ...”
“She'd never tolerated deception regarding her strong opinions--that much was true. But wasn't it also true that when it came to trying to please in matters that weren't crucial to her, that didn't ...”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.”
“Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.”
“I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion that’s damned me more than once. But I just can’t hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.”
“It’s the simplest things that can convey a message….”
“I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A”
“He was right: not about her playing him, or about her laughing at him, but certainly about her carelessness, about her casual disregard for how he would feel if he found out, and about the stunning...”
“I am the false character that follows the name around.”
“... honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain’t that fucking attractive.”
“If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dis...”
“Here it was, the first of many lies he’d have to come up with. “Bella threw a knife at my head.” He’d do better with the next lie.”
“Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.”
“There’s nothing more powerful in “Your Moment of Truth” than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.”
“You looked like the girl I loved.”
“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.”
“Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark ...”
“Ay,sir;to be honest,as this world goes,is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
“We are only as sick as our secrets.”
“When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they ca...”
