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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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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
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"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
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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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Explore more quotes by Seamus Heaney

"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
Poetry

"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
Hope

"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
Nationality

"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
Perseverance

"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."
Family

"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
Life

"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."
Truth

"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."
Poetry

"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
Poetry

"I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."
Joy
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