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
“You tell the truth and you depict it in detail.”
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Natalie Goldberg
,
book
Writing Down the Bones
Foreword to the 2nd Edition (December 2004), by Natalie Goldberg. p.xxiii
Writing Down the Bones (1986)
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