Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
Jack Kerouac
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"Get your tongue where your heart is."
Jack Kerouac
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"Clever men are good, but honest men are better."
Joseph Heller
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"The real truth is that there are no real truths."
Joseph Heller
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you uncomfortable."
Joseph Heller
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"The quest for truth is more important than truth itself."
Joseph Heller
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"I am not a pleasant man."
William S. Burroughs
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"These are the facts of existence."
William S. Burroughs
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"Remove the word secret from your vocabulary."
William S. Burroughs
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"Every person has their own truth."
William S. Burroughs
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"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."
Norman Mailer
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"Truth is not comfortable; it is sharp and demands we change ourselves."
Norman Mailer
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"Truth is the price we pay for the comfort of our illusions."
Norman Mailer
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"I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not glad I met."
J.D. Salinger
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"I hate actors. They're such phonies."
J.D. Salinger
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"I really did. I'm not kidding."
J.D. Salinger
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"It really does. It happened."
J.D. Salinger
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"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
J.D. Salinger
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"I'm the kind of guy that if somebody tells me a lie, it kills me."
J.D. Salinger
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"Candor ends paranoia"
Allen Ginsberg
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"You can't fake authenticity for very long"
Allen Ginsberg
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"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
William S. Burroughs
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"Reality is not fixed; it's a matter of point of view."
William S. Burroughs
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"The pursuit of truth requires the willingness to be wrong."
William S. Burroughs
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
William S. Burroughs
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"I love my nurse but I do not believe in supernatural realities."
William Carlos Williams
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"Truth is not always easy, but it is always necessary."
William Carlos Williams
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"Truth prevails in the end."
William Carlos Williams
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"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
Jack Kerouac
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"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen."
Jack Kerouac