“She’s such a goddamn liar, maybe she don’t know herself any more.” — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Tag: truth
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“I don’t mind the lies told about me, what worries me is the truth.” — Henny Youngman, Henny Youngman’s Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks
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“To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.” — Thomas Huxley, Hume
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“A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.” — Vash Young, A Fortune to Share
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“I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.” — Truman Capote, “Self-Portrait,” The Dogs Bark
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“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions
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“They ought to pass a rule in this country in any investigations, if a man couldn’t tell the truth the first time he shouldn’t be allowed to try again.” — Will Rogers, “At Least One Lawyer Found for Every Barrel of Oil,” New York Times (1924-03-02)
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“Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.” — Gwendolyn Brooks, Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle
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“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.” — Katherine Anne Porter, “My First Speech,” Collected Stories and Other Writings
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“I for my part will never lend myself to such a perversion (of the truth), until such time as I am forced to or find it convenient.” — Samuel Beckett, Molloy
