Category Archives: Truth

Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker

“I may not always be right, but I care passionately about what is true and I never say anything that I do not believe to be right.”

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Henry Miller, from an interview with George Wicks in The Paris Review (1962)

“I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.”

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Indira

“America is a dumbass country. It’s sad that we’re a superpower in this world. We treat this country like it’s a sports team: Go America!! Kick Iraq’s ass! All right red, white and blue!”

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John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“… as if the truth were a secret in such low solution that only immensity can give us a sensible taste.”

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Henry Miller

“The facts and events of life are for me only the starting points on the way towards the discovery of truth.”

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Muriel Rukeyser

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”

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Henry Miller on Writing

“I found it easier to give the truth about the ugly side of my nature than the good. The good in me I only know as it is reflected back to me in the eyes and voices of those I talk to.”

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