"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

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"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

Stephen King, American Author

Truth, Drugs, Creativity, Myth

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

Stephen King, American Author

Truth, Fear, Imagination, Curiosity

"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

Stephen King, American Author

Truth, Fear, Wealth, Loss, Nature

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Truth, Habit, Addiction, Memory, Change

"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Truth, Riddle, Nothing, Death, Poverty

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Truth, History, Poetry

"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present."

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"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

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"There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe."

Life, Europe, Grace

"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

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"I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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"When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?"

"Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up."

"This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief."

"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present."

"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

"Atlantis will rise again."

"There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe."

"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

"I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire."

"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."