“But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
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Letter as quoted in "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life" (2003) written by Caroline Moorehead.
Context: War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
“Your version of the truth is the only one that matters.”
"Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths."
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 199 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 199 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
Fraternity lecture delivered in Boston (4 October 1859), published in Speeches, Letters and Lectures by Wendell Phillips (1884), p. 245
1850s