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Truer Quotes by Laura Riding

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Truer, as a concept, finds a precise articulation in Laura Riding's poetry and prose. Her modernist sensibility strips away ornament, seeking a language that mirrors reality's unvarnished core. The following quotations reveal how she pursues authenticity, urging readers to confront the stark, often uncomfortable, truths beneath surface appearances.

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If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved…

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Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just…

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“Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it”

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The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning,…

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Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

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Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

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She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of…

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rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

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The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of…

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The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back…

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Women are strangers in the country of man.

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Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

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Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A…

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To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after -…

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