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Truth Quotes by Mason Cooley

38 Truth quotes by Mason Cooley

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A writer holds a pen, aware that both truth and lies flow from it. The quotes note that truth can stay silent while lies must be spoken, that truth often finds us, and that love’s broken heart knows its own truth.

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Malice is always authentic and sincere.

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Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

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Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

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It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

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Truth usually stammers at first.

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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

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Disillusionment is not truth.

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Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

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Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

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The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

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We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

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After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

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Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

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Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

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In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back…

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Facts do not give advice.

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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

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The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

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The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

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Truth is a necessary phantom.

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Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

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Keep your lies short and simple.

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Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

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I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

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Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

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Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

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The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

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I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

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The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

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Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

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If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.

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Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

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Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

Money comes to life as it is spent.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

The body has a mind of its own.

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.