“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
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“What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?”
“Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.”
“The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.”
“You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.”
“The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.”
“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.”
“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.”
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.”
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
“We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.”
“There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.”
“To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.”
“Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.”
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.”
“It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.”
“The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.”
“To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.”
“Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.”