Quotes About Truth

We passed gas stations and chain food restaurants, with their billboards advertising happiness. I know the images in magazines and on TV aren't true representations of the world; I mean, that's obvious. But I still get this sinking feeling of disappointment, as if it is the world I should see.

Per un breve periodo si può far finta di non sapere la verità. È come trattenere il respiro. Ma alla fine bisogna riprendere aria. Più in profondità si seppellisce una bugia, più forte è la pressione quando esplode.

Another important statement

Il razionalismo moderno fa come gli struzzi: mette la testa sotto terra per nascondersi, e si ritiene soddisfatto se riesce a drogare milioni e milioni di uomini con le «istruzioni per l'uso»

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and for words to mean what they say. It's all right, too, for words and appearances to mean more than one thing--ambiguity is a fact of life.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

The art that speaks [truth] most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

The future story writer in the child I was must have taken unconscious note and stored it away then: one secret is liable to be revealed in the place of another that is harder to tell, and the substitute secret when nakedly exposed is often the more appalling.

Told him I was one-sided. Bigger on one side than the other, which is a deliberate, calculated falsehood: I'm the same.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Humanity itself seems to matter more to the novelist than what humanity thinks it can prove. When

Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest.

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

Truth has only two sides, but it's the third side that's best.

It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or not, to a deeper and more universal reality.

People, they all have the word goodness on lips a bloody knife between their teeth.

All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.

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