"By swap news do you mean drink?' 'I do, and that excessively."

Truth, Dialogue, Humor, Society, Communication

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"By swap news do you mean drink?' 'I do, and that excessively."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent."

Roger Moore, English Actor

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Truth, Young, Honesty, People

"The living souls have the breath of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer."

Philip Kaufman, American Director

Truth, Mystery, Past

"There is no original truth, only original error."

Gaston Bachelard, French Philosopher

Truth, Error

"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Truth, Death, Life, End

"What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

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"What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?"

Nature

"You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living."

Corruption

"Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got."

Art

"I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them."

Learning

"Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter."

Power

"It was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion."

Emotion

"The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind."

Adaptation

"Empathy? What's that? Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. 'It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself."

Betrayal

"You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor."

Reconciliation

"He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing."

Blame