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Truth Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have…
- Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that…
- Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
- I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
- And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards…
- Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past…
- The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at…
- He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them…
- Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
- The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go…
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle