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I never saw any good that came of telling truth. -- John Dryden
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. -- Lauren Groff
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them. -- Ray McKinnon
I believe in telling the truth. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Truth disappears with the telling of it. -- Lawrence Durrell
Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things. -- Bernard Sahlins
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. -- June Jordan
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. -- Johann Lamont
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. -- Philip Guedalla
I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. -- James L. Barksdale
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. -- Anita Brookner
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. -- Thomas Sowell
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? -- Anthony Hope
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. -- Malcolm Bradbury
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. -- Ramakrishna
This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth. -- Corey Clark
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me. -- Joe Biden
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. -- James E. Faust
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly. -- Brit Marling
I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder. -- Jussie Smollett
Telling the truth is always revolutionary -- Antonio Gramsci
Telling the truth is absolutely important. -- Jonathan Karl
Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me. -- Mason Cooley
Stop telling the truth about my record! -- Bob Dole
Good writing is about telling the truth. -- Anne Lamott
Playing guitar is like telling the truth. -- B. B. King
Telling the truth can be a dirty job. -- Francesca Marciano
Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth. -- Joan of Arc
You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth. -- Martha Beck
telling the truth about children's lives is radical. -- Lucille Clifton
I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth. -- Kesha Rogers
Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth. -- Isabella Stewart Gardner
The young are not afraid of telling the truth. -- Anne Frank
The secret of good writing is telling the truth. -- Gordon Lish
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth. -- Armistead Maupin
Faith is acting like God is telling the truth. -- Tony Evans
Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth. -- Bob Arum
Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world. -- George Bernard Shaw
Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level. -- Parker J. Palmer
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth. -- Yann Martel
I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful. -- Vinnie Tortorich
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth. -- Michael Kinsley
Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth. -- Todd Strasser
All we can do is go around telling the truth. -- Carson McCullers
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. -- George Bernard Shaw
Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage. -- Wafa Sultan
Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth. -- Sara Shepard
Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse. -- Frank Hall
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. -- George Orwell
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -- Pietro Aretino
Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again -- Christopher Dodd
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. -- Peter Matthiessen
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt -- Christian Boltanski
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out! -- Agatha Christie
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. -- Thomas Sowell
I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth -- Louis Farrakhan
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. -- James L. Barksdale
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. -- Robert Breault
I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth. -- Paul Auster
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it. -- Nadeem Aslam
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth. -- Lionel Strachey
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth. -- Otto von Bismarck
Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves. -- Lauryn Hill
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism. -- Brittany Murphy
Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly. -- Glen Duncan
I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth. -- Jesse Ventura
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. -- Laura Riding
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth. -- Curt Flood
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological. -- Robert Breault
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth. -- Ken Blanchard
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear. -- Simon Sinek
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. -- Richard Peck
I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth. -- Joe Walsh
Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth. -- Eva LaRue
I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth. -- Sho Baraka
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. -- Spencer Johnson
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. -- Paulo Coelho
There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move. -- Felicity Kendal
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating. -- Donald Miller
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth. -- Sean McDonough
I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little. -- Linda D. Thompson
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel. -- H. L. Mencken
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you. -- Marissa Meyer
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it. -- Frederick Buechner
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. -- bell hooks
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth. -- Ian Mckellen
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When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. -- bell hooks
I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth. -- Pam Houston
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?' -- Wendy Cope
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing -- Susan Howatch
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. -- Jonathan Maberry
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. -- Eric Carr
Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly. -- Sabrina Ward Harrison
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? -- Jean Rostand
There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . . -- Frances Hardinge
I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it. -- Colum McCann
When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves. -- Nicole Kidman
It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth. -- Ben Bradlee
There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth. -- Stefan Molyneux
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. -- Jewel

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