Quotes About Authenticity

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.

it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion. 

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

if you say the truth you don't have to remember anything

I sometimes wonder if our world leaders are very smart and just putting us on, or very stupid and mean it.

everything in a dream is more deep and strong and real than is ever its pale imitation in the unreal life which is ours when we go awake and clothed with our artificial selves in this vague and dull-tinted artificial world.

On Theodore Roosevelt] I always enjoy his society, he is so hearty, so straightforward, outspoken and, for the moment, so absolutely sincere.

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our heats, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

Moralizing, I observed, then, that all that glitters is not gold.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." ? Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl's child than you are!

It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

Isn't human nature the most consummate sham & lie that was ever invented?

Nada devem saber a meu respeito a não ser que tenham lido «As Aventuras de Tom Sawyer». Não faz mal. O livro foi escrito pelo senhor Mark Twain, e ele contava quase sempre a verdade.

Write what you know

Ä°nsan dürüstlüÄŸünün mimar? kendisi deÄŸildir.

Gerçek ayakkab?lar?n? giyene kadar, yalan dünyay? 3 kere dola??r.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.

None of us could _live_ with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude.

Wenn du die Wahrheit sagst, brauchst du kein gutes Gedächtnis.