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Quote by John Updike
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue. – William Tyndale

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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. – Michael Musto

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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. – Attributed to James A. Garfield

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. – Hannah Arendt

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I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. – Harry Dean Stanton

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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. – Jacob Bronowski

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Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. – Proverb

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