“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook
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Tag: truth
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“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.” — Oscar Wilde, The portrait of Mr. W. H.
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“Everyone admits that “the truth hurts” but no one applies this adage to himself — and as soon as it begins to hurt us, we quickly repudiate it and call it a lie.” — Sydney J. Harris, On the Contrary
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“Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.” — Rudyard Kipling, “Fiction,” speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926
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“Autobiography—that unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Philip Guedalla, Biographers and Their Victims, Debate with A. G. Gardiner at The London School of Economics (June 1923)
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“Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.” — Jack McDevitt, Odyssey
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“There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each differently.” — Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture
