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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. -- Mel Brooks
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. -- Henry Miller
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom. -- Jane Hirshfield
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means. -- David Levithan
Usually we are saying only part of the truth. -- Erno Rubik
There's no point in saying anything but the truth. -- Amy Winehouse
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars. -- Idries Shah
There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. -- Robert Breault
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." -- William Macneile Dixon
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying. -- Andre Gide
... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.' -- Benjamin Franklin
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. -- Quentin Tarantino
I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist -- Rachel Cohn
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. -- Livy
Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth. -- Amit Kalantri
[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence. -- Jim Goldberg
If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth. -- Neel Burton
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." -- Quincy Jones
From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment. -- Idries Shah
Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world? -- Rudolf Arnheim
I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes. -- Matt Malloy
There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth. -- Ti-Grace Atkinson
In truth, his most ardent fantasy was to hear her saying the three words he had repeated so often already. I love you. -- Cristiane Serruya
Haters saying they wanna defeat us, they don't hate us they wanna be us. Truth is you can't join us or beat us. -- Wiz Khalifa
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth. -- Larry Kramer
There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist. -- Margaret Atwood
What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts. -- Rick Yancey
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth. -- Lee Greenwood
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say. -- Tommy Chong
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing. -- Harri Holkeri
... truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another ... -- Catherine Marshall
I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth. -- Shemar Moore
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. -- Marilynne Robinson
If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap. -- Richard Belzer
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse. -- Ron Suskind

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