J. M. Coetzee Quotes
But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
J. M. Coetzee
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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.
Frances Burney
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Yanis Varoufakis
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
Fabiola Gianotti
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
Patricia Polacco
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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.
Flannery O'Connor
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It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
David Boies
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If you care passionately about something has become the only test to determine if something is constitutional. How passionately do you care?
Antonin Scalia
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Growing up, we had folk records.
Alison Krauss
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I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.
Dennis Lehane
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People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.
Ann Callis
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But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
J. M. Coetzee