"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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"What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed."
"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."
"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."
"I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy"is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want."
"Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
"I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!"
"Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!"
"Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of."
"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man."
"Why is this so hard?” I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard."
"When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret."
"The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end."
"There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road."
"He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart."
"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
"Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers"
"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied."
"The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."