Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"We are dying from politeness."David Foster Wallace
"The secret is that there is no secret."David Foster Wallace
"Sincerity may be the only cure for irony."David Foster Wallace
"What we call the real world is just a way of agreeing about delusion."David Foster Wallace
"The truth is that we're all dying, all the time. What matters is what we do with the time we have."Saul Bellow
"Real firmness is good for anything; fake firmness is only for show."Saul Bellow
"To tell the truth nowadays is to run great risks."Saul Bellow
"Facts should not get in the way of the truth."Saul Bellow
"I try to be honest, and that's not easy."Saul Bellow
"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."Joseph Heller
"The truth is that everyone lies about almost everything."Joseph Heller
"The truth is rarely simple and usually uncomfortable."Joseph Heller
"Everybody who has ever lived has had some point of view about things."Philip Roth
"The fake is second nature to us; we don't even know how to be real anymore."Philip Roth
"To be honest about one's experience is a radical act."Philip Roth
"Suffering is not ennobling; it is mostly just suffering."Philip Roth
"We are never innocent of what we pretend not to know."Philip Roth
"The only thing we really have is our integrity."Philip Roth
"Desire is the most honest human impulse."Philip Roth
"The most subversive thing you can do is tell the truth."Philip Roth
"The truth sits at the window."Norman Mailer
"We are dying from politeness."Norman Mailer
"The central question is not whether it is good or bad, but whether I believe in it."J.D. Salinger
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life."J.D. Salinger
"There are no innocents in the modern age."William S. Burroughs
"We're caught in a net and the only way out is to acknowledge the net"Allen Ginsberg
"Truth will set you free"Allen Ginsberg
"All this happened, more or less."Kurt Vonnegut
"The only people I knew who believed things were true simply because they were in print were librarians."Kurt Vonnegut
"The truth is: the chief activator of human behavior is emotion, not intellect."Kurt Vonnegut