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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 Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt

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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. – Khalil Gibran

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I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me. – Moliere

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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say youre cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. – W. Somerset Maugham

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