She was coming to look on men and women as fellow survivors; well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or just put to use their own destruction. Of...

Dementia was like a truth serum.

The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies...

Robespierre has never forgiven his friends the injuries he has done them, nor the kindnesses he has received from them, nor the talents some of them possess that he doesn't.

All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot...

I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and...

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne.

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing...

It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth

He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen to or tried to understand, and the effort had drained him dry.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

When it rains," her father said "it pours.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

Climbing hills was never one of my great ambitions. Perhaps I was just lazy, but I admit--now that I've been climbing a hill every other day--that it's very difficult to think about the stresses in...

In the mud it started like so much.

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.

She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for diversity?

Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this {if it were supposed to end}, she too might not be left with only compiled memories of clues, announcements, intimations, but never the central truth...

Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... about all they...

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

...this sort of feels like green.""This is me being blue. Don't worry - you're still yellow

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.