Quotes About Truth

Il avait le poisson sous les yeux et il lui suffisait de regarder ses mains et de sentir son dos contre le bois de l'arrière pour savoir que cela était bel et bien arrivé et que ce n'était pas un rêve.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Desconfío de todas las personas francas y sencillas, especialmente cuando sus historias parecen tener lógica

Dante only made crazy people feel they could write great poetry. That was not true of course but then almost nothing was true and especially not in Africa. In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect weed-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

I feel better about him now," young Tom said. "You know at school somebody said David was my half brother, not my real brother, and I told him we didn't have half brothers in our family. I wish I didn't worry so much though, papa.

El secreto de la sabiduría, del poder y del conocimiento es la humildad

no good writer can do his job working in a fascist state, which is built on lies.

She did not like to hear the really bad nor tragic things, but no one does, and having seen them I did not care to talk about them unless she wanted to know how the world was going. She wanted to know the gay part of how the world was going; never the real, never the bad.

Make it all up. But make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

It is why I bother with you, he said. I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.

They should be rescued from ignorance." "Don't talk nonsense. Education is an opium of the people. You ought to know that. You've had a little." "You do not believe in education?" "No," said Mr. Frazer. "In knowledge, yes." "I do not follow you.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel

Write hard and clear about what hurts

In order to write about life first you must live it." ? Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ir jis mat? aukso rusvumo veid?, ir rusvai pilkas akis, ir šypsan?ias sodrias l?pas, ir saul?s išblukintus trumpus plaukus, ir ji pak?l? veid?, ir nusišypsojo jam ? akis. Tai tikrai buvo tiesa.

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Write the truest sentence you know.

i looked at him and his marked-for-death look and i thought, you con man conning me with your con. i've seen a battalion in the dust on the road, a third of them for death or worse and no special marks on them, the dust for all, and you and your marked-for-death look, you con man, making a living out of your death. now you will con me. con not, that thou be not conned. death was not conning with him. it was coming all right.

Start by writing the truest sentence you know