To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Milan Kundera
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To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. -
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. -
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. -
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. -
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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- He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
- Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
- Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.