"I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at."

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Roberto Bolano

#Telling The Truth Quotes

“I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.”
“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.”
“As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.”
“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.”
“Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye.”

Source : Oeuvres vol. 7, introduction (1812 - 1820)
“Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.”

Source : Letter to Alban Berg, "Anton von Webern" by Malcolm Hayes, (p. 71), 1995.
“What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.”

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