I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth But years must pass before a hope of youth Is resigned utterly. I watched and waited with a steadfast will: And though the object seemed to flee away That I so ...
We agreed that at least to some extent the whole punk movement is based on the Buddha's 1st noble truth of suffering & the dissatisfactory nature of the material world. The punks see through the lies of society & the oppressive dictates of modern con...
There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had...
Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is pretty lame. My wife and I were having a drink on our back porch and I mentioned a concept I'd been mulling over. She suggested that I write it do...
They say love is blind...but it isn't. Love is perfect sight. Love is the ability to see a person, I mean really see him-his strengths, his weaknesses, his flaws, all his past triumphs and mistakes-and view that person not as the world says you're su...
We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventu...
Jim Garrison: All these documents are yours. The people's property, you pay for it! But because the government considers you children who might be too disturbed or distressed to face this reality, or because you might possibly lynch those involved, y...
Jack Walsh: I can't keep you cuffed on a commercial flight, and I gotta check my gun with my luggage, but you fuck with me once and I'm gonna break your neck. Jonathan Mardukas: I can't fly. Jack Walsh: What? Jonathan Mardukas: You heard me, I can't ...
Caden Cotard: I won't settle for anything less than the brutal truth. Brutal. Brutal. Each day I'll hand you a paper, it'll tell you what happened to you that day. You felt a lump in your breast. You looked at your wife and saw a stranger, et cetera....
That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the creative life is somehow self-indulgent. Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nou...
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison
...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...
[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
