Quotes with truthful

  • Not a red rose or a satin heart. 
 I give you an onion. 
 It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. 
 It promises light 
 like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.

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  • Bryce Dallas Howard '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Davison A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Willa Cather Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Adolf Loos Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Anne Stevenson I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Bela Lugosi I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Ernst Fischer In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Not a red rose or a satin heart.
    I give you an onion.
    It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
    It promises light
    like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
    Valentine, from Mean Time (1993)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Henry Miller One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Orwell Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
    Politics and the English Language (1945)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
    Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002)
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Alfred Nobel The truthful man is usually a liar.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Barry McGuire There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Edward Dahlberg What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bob Graham Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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