"Tell the truth, but tell it slant." — Emily Dickinson
"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
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Emily Dickinson
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362 Quotes by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson has 362 quotes on this site.
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control…
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of…
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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating…
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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some…
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
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A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range…
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were…
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The media didn’t hand it to Obama; after all, the Number One cable news channel, Fox, is right-wing. The Number…
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I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had…
— Noel Fielding
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Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant…
— Richard L. Evans
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Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the…
— Christa Wolf
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Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future...Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty…
— Ben Bova
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No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We…
— Bernard Goldberg
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While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it.…
— Jean Little
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The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they…
— Curt Weldon
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When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
— Sally Mann
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