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“Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.”

Ifs Truth Past Telling The Truth

Author:Ken Loach

“But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.”

People Want Art Feelings Truth Past Order Found Literature Practice Exciting Alcohol Sensations

Book:After Many a Summer

Source: After Many a Summer

“Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.”

Source: Scepticism and Animal Faith

“Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.”

Truth Past Issues Useless Profundity

Author:Mason Cooley