Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. – Simone de Beauvoir

Ive been &amp am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen &amp Im quite ordinary, &amp will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point Im one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. – T. E. Lawrence