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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
— William Faulkner
I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
— Jasper Fforde
We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and -
— Richelle Mead
The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.
— Maggie Stiefvater
A women can run, hide, play and have fun but she will shine far better when she just smiles without none.
— Santosh Kalwar
With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
When somebody you love dies, a phase of life's innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
— Morrissey
If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game. — Belva Rae Staples
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game. — Belva Rae Staples
And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.
— Toni Morrison
Women exist to put right all the wrongs men do and to keep them from making a complete pig's ear of the world.
— Jayne Fresina
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
— Gilles Deleuze
In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?
— Maya Angelou
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
— George Carlin
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
— William Temple
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
— George Saunders
Feel these muscles and understand how they boast the truth!
— Hiromu Arakawa
It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Nanny Ogg had a pragmatic attitude to the truth; she told it if it was convenient and she couldn't be bothered to make up something more interesting.
— Terry Pratchett
Humor plays close to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
— E.B. White
Dennis hit him with the [Sheri] Tepper. It was a hardback book, six hundred pages of wonder and adventure and a little preachiness mixed in.
— Margaret Ball
Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
— Charles Bukowski
Something tells me you were never a Girl Scout.
— Gwenda Bond
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
— Barry Eisler
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.
— Charles Willeford
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
— Iris Murdoch
Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists.
— Patricia Nedelea
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
— Lily Tomlin
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
— Brendan Coyle
I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?
— Jess C. Scott
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. — Johannes Kepler
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. — Johannes Kepler
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.
— H.L. Mencken
All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.
— David Sedaris
The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.
— David Sedaris
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
— Margaret Mitchell
He comes.
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up. — Casey Renee Kiser
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up. — Casey Renee Kiser
A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth,
then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today. — Toba Beta
then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today. — Toba Beta
To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.
— Val Edward Simone
It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.
— Katherine Rundell
People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
— Sid Caesar
Selfishness from earth to hereafter: Thy pray and struggle, same by thee. Because life committed selfishness in living with the Democracy.
— Deh Gel
Dad, is she serious?"
John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she doesn't feed me. So i dont argue with your mama. — Molly McAdams
John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she doesn't feed me. So i dont argue with your mama. — Molly McAdams
... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
You drive on a PARKway and park on a DRIVEway
— Elisabeth Austin
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
— John Locke
Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
— G.K. Chesterton
The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
— Saurabh Sharma
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.
— Robert Mankoff
A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.
— Jill Abramson
Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
I'm here," I continued, "to guide you into the light of truth, decency and perhaps pants.
— Paul Rudnick
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
— Catherine Deneuve