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Quotes About Truth Telling

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady Gaga
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
Grace Slick
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
Jane Goodall
You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
Scott Bakula
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Anne Lamott
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