Truth Quotes

"I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many risks."

"One does not employ one's memory to indulge in wild speculation."

"You think there is some place these things dont happen. There is no such place."

"Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."

"Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse for some."

"She doesn't come right out and say she lied. She doesn't have to."

"I'm married. She cover up the wounds. But she don't make them go away."

"He beat me like he beat the children."

"Everything you been taught a lie."

"I am not ashamed of having been a fool."

"You take my meaning: that very universality which you would have me belie by implication."

"I too had been overcome by the national style of misunderstanding."

"I had been searching for a form of authenticity that could not be found."

"We were all deceiving ourselves about something fundamental."

"The truth, though uncomfortable, sets one free."

"One must be willing to admit when one has been mistaken."

"One cannot escape the consequences of one's choices."

"In the way of things there is no trucage."

"Don't it bother you that you are telling lies?"

"The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me."

"The world doesn't see me."

"They've been doing it to us all the time."

"What is real anyway?"

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print."

"We lived, as usual, by ignoring."

"I felt bad and low-down, and dirty."

"We ain't safe nowhere."

"You can't make yourself feel something you don't feel, but you sure can block yourself from feeling something you do."

"Being invisible is not a matter of biochemistry, as you know, but a matter of psychology and the ways of seeing."

"We accept responsibility for our blindness."