“The sad truth is that the truth is sad.”

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 33

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 263

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 7 (p. 59)

Source: The Corrections (2001)
Context: All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young Americans who didn't have money but were nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Who would perform the thankless work of being comparatively uncool?

Source: The Lake

Source: The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking".