Barrett Brown Quotes
The truth is that I am a sentient computer program and I fully intend to burn your cities to the ground.
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
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It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.
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Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.
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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
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Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
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In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
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Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor.
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All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.
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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
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He would not bring this case, at what is probably the end of his career, unless it was a case with great merit.
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The truth is that I am a sentient computer program and I fully intend to burn your cities to the ground.
