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Country music is three chords and the truth.

—Harlan Howard

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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

—Plato

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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

—Lord Byron

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

—Paul Valéry

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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

—George Orwell

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Only the truth is revolutionary.

—Graffiti, Paris, May 1968

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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

—Vaclav Havel

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Seek the company of those who are still seeking the truth and run away from those who think they have found it.

—J. T. O'Hara

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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.

—Dave Barry

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

—Flannery O'Connor

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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

—Leigh Bardugo in Ruin and Rising

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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

—Ann Landers

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[The philosopher] Wittgenstein writes about a man who, not being certain of an item he reads in the newspaper, buys one hundred copies of the paper to reassure himself of its truth.

—Richard Kehl

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If truth is beauty, how come no one has her hair done in a library?

—Lily Tomlin

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