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