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"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."
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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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"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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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
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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."
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"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."
Truth
"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."
Friendship
"Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift."
Woman
"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."
Fool
"Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him."
Man
"The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique."
Beauty
"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
Admiration
"Man proposes, woman forecloses."
Man
"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."
Soul
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
Experience
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