#tru

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#pain #perfect #truthful #words

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#good-books #truth #writers #bad

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#reading #truth #read

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#beneath #effectively #humanity #latent #live

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ↗

— Aeschylus

#end #every #friend #heart #in the end

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#close friends #depend #friends #group #i

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are. ↗

— Edward Albee

#show #swine #truffles #where #you

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#entrusted #light #responsible #talent #while

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#joke #joking #tell #truth #way

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts