“I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin
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“Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.”
“Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Outlaw Blues
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Variant: If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
Source: City of Ashes
Jace to Clary, pg. 324
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“I'm Jake Featherston, and I'm here to tell you the truth.”
Source: American Empire: The Victorious Opposition (2003), p. 274
Source: Patternmaster (1976), Chapter 6 (p. 717)
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Variant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn