Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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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.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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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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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
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I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
