"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

Truth, Lies, Reality, Honesty

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"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

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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."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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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."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"Sometimes dead is better."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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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."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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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."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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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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"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."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Truth, Happiness, Misery, Learning

"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."

John Green, American Author

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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Can't get away from your own self."

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"I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts."

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"I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have."

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"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."

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"I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

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