"Most men would rather deny a hard truth…" — George R. R. Martin
"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
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746 Quotes by George R. R. Martin
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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than…
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know…
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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good…
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are…
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about.…
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I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have…
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From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close…
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Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution…
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We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console…
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More Denial Quotes
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one of 636 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
— Javier Bardem
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who…
— Martha Beck
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
— David Bowie
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization…
— Barbara Boxer
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People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
— Julie Burchill
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