"To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life."
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"On to the Next Dream is so outlandish. I call it absurdist fiction, because the story is utter hyperbole. The story builds to such an exaggerated and ridiculous pitch that there's no way it can be true - and yet, because it's based on the current cultural climate, it feels as if it is."
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"Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true."
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"All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right."
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"What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values."
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"God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union."
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"It is true if you believe it to be true."
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"Be true. Be as true and honest with yourself as you can and then you've just got to let it go from there out into the universe. Whatever happens after that, I have no control of, but I do have control of what I'm willing to put out there."
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"Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true."
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"I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?"
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"Great faith it needs, according to my view, To trust in that which never could be true."
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"If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true."
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"Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves."
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"how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?"
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"That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature."
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"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
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"The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him."
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"If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me."
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"T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true."
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"Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true."
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