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“Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.”
“It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.”
“Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of de...”
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
“Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.”
“Tell the truth no matter who it hurts.”
“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”
“In simplicity there is truth.”
“I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the deceit, the dishonesty, the insincerity, the lack, the need, the want, ...”
“People with no human values are worse than zombies.”
“What does she even eat, do you think?""Tea fungus,"Ruth says. "Unsweetened. From an eye dropper. Is what I picture. either that or some sort of sea vegetable.""Sad," I say."It is," Ruth muses.We de...”
“So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results,...”
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
“In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.”
“In politics, nothing is contemptible.”
“Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.”
“Wealth will always find a way of escaping from societies without an established system of truth and honesty, into societies that are well established in truth and honesty.”
“Be big enough to offer the truth to people and if it short circuits them I think that's tragic. I think that's sad but, I will not strike no unholy bargains to self erase. I wont do it. I don't car...”
“As the campaign progressed, Armistead remembered what his parents had taught him: If you never tell a lie, you won't have to remember what you said.He subsequently developed a perverse respect for ...”
“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly”
