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Edward Abbey

"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."

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"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."

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"My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them."

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"No one can make you honest. Only your heart and mind can do that."

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"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."

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"It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!"

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"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth."

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