Harsh Truth Quotes

• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

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  William Lloyd Garrison

  Justice   Retreat   Excuse  

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

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  Cassandra Clare

  Morning   Digestion   Harsh  

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

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  Tom Robbins

  Men   Mold   Barns  

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.75, Bantam

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• I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

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  William Lloyd Garrison

  Truth   Justice   Retreat  

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

  4662

• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

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  Robert Breault

  Positive   Truth   Honesty  

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• Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

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  Virginia Woolf

  Sex   Mind   Looks  

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.859, Wordsworth Editions

  1183

• If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

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  Dave Eggers

  Air   Space   Want  

  Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

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• Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

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  Robert Breault

  Friendship   True Friend   Real  

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• No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

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  Kelley Armstrong

  Lying   Deceit   Harsh  

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

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  Neil Gaiman

  Life   Long   Water  

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• Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

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  Cassandra Clare

  Morning   Snakes   Doe  

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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