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"Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, 'Is this my life?', remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes."
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"Sometimes dead is better."
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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
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"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."
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"I would like a cappuccino," says Linus politely. "Thank you.""Your name?""I'll spell it for you," he says. "Z-W-P-A-E-N--""What?" She stares at him, Sharpie in hand."Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. "It's Dutch."
Identity
"Relationships should be built on trust and truth."
Trust
"London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!"
Travel
"You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red."
Love
"It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to."
Emotion
"How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do. You lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail... and out you go."
Resilience
"As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
Temptation
"If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband."
Writing
"When the dog bites, when the bee stings... I simply remember I have a boyfriend and suddenly things don't seem quite so completely shit."
Humor
"There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."
Resilience
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