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"Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends."
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Personal Development
"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."
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Personal Development
"That's my story...I decided to share it with you all guys... like or don't... I don't give a fuck."
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Personal Development
"I won't lie-I don't."
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Personal Development
"People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead."
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Personal Development
"All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness."
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Personal Development
"When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don't be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If you are filled with untruths, those characteristics make it hard for anyone to believe in you."
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Personal Development
"It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut-it's the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts."
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Personal Development
"Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children."
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Personal Development
"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Criticism
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
Business
"In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone."
Trust
"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."
Spiritual
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
War
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
World
"Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Success
"Never confuse movement with action."
Action
"Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell everybody in the world that you are the only thing that matters. Please, please, dear Jesus' The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. The next night back at Mestre he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Villa Rosa about Jesus. And he never told anybody."
Religion
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