#the truth

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#am #artist #atheist #distrust #everything

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#blame #does #should #telling #telling the truth

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

#because #involves #poetry #political #political act

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. ↗

— June Jordan

#deep #each #feel #get #herself

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#democrats #lies #republicans #stop #telling

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

#generally #misunderstand #people #promoting #telling

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth. ↗

— Paula Jones

#american #american people #because #believe #did

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#advantage #believes #ever #great #great advantage

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#answer #ask #because #country #direct

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #caught #ever #good #hand