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Quotes About Clarity

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.
~ Jessica Warman, Breathless
In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
~ D?gen
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.
~ Molly Ivins
If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
~ Jon Stewart
Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.
~ Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Dead
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
~ Thomas Sowell
What you see is what you see
~ Frank Stella
I am not cruel —only truthful.
~ Sylvia Plath
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
~ Anthony Liccione
Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]
~ George Sand, Correspondance
What a bright sunny day, and I don't know what to say...
~ Santosh Kalwar
I shall remind myself who I am so I can share that with them, instead of trying to explain why I am not who they think I should be. (Yalia Sagewhisper)
~ Michael A. Stackpole
No one is sexy at three am
~ Michael Avallone
When you visit a Danish company and can't tell the CEO from the office clerk, that's Viking egalitarianism at work.
~ Michael Booth
Long life wore away everything that was not essential.
~ Michael Chabon
The exaltation of understanding; then understanding's bottomless regret.
~ Michael Chabon
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
~ Michael Chabon
At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.
~ Michael Chabon
Vulgar language, Chan said...Always the first and last refuge of the man with nothing to say.
~ Michael Chabon
On the way out again, I suddenly saw everything clearly: Sigmund Feud painting his cocaine onto his septum, the rising uproar of the past hour and a half, the idling Audi full of rash behavior that lay ahead, the detonating summer; and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.
~ Michael Chabon
War confused civilians every bit as surely as it did the armies who got lost in its fogs.
~ Michael Chabon