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Judith Martin

"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."

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"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."

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"It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact."

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"Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him."

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"I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies."

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"Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve."

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"Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality."

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"It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!"

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"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better."

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"Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly."

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Amber Hurdle

"You will love and admire the One who is honest and blunt in his views, as long as you're not his subject of viewpoint!"

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"That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something."

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