Sunday Dinner: Telling the Truth

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“A lie can travel half way around the world

while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

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Mark Twain

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“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing,

and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

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J.K. Rowling

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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

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Oscar Wilde

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice

for honesty and truth and compassion

against injustice and lying and greed.

If people all over the world…would do this,

it would change the earth.”

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William Faulkner

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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself.

The man who lies to himself

and listens to his own lie

comes to a point that he cannot

distinguish the truth within him, or around him,

and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

And having no respect

he ceases to love.”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“The truth does not change

according to our ability to stomach it.”

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Flannery O’Connor

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“When I despair, I remember

that all through history

the way of truth and love have always won.

There have been tyrants and murderers,

and for a time, they can seem invincible,

but in the end, they always fall.

Think of it–always.”

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2019

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“In a time of deceit

telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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George Orwell

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“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
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Roy T. Bennett

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