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Ernest Hemingway once said "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."

What's your truest sentence?

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    1. AlexGreat
      I agree
    2. rainforestrobin
      Oh LynneaUrania, you stole my line.
  1. harveyavatar
    Reality is perfectly oblivious of the idea we may make of it to be what it is.
  2. aningeniousname
    I gimp therefore I spam.
    1. epiphanizing
      I troll, therefore I spam.
  3. Floormodel
    what is is.
  4. Sam1982
    we are young - love is a battlefield
  5. Friday13
    Ken lee tulibu dibu douchoo.
  6. archiegottlieb
    everything is text
  7. codesucker
    The only thing you can truly know is that you know nothing.
    -Socrates
  8. Madlabent
    You can attract more with honey than vinegar (or something along those lines).

    blogs.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_paid_posts_can_kill_your_blog
  9. Hangingonahyphen
    You can't be all-so-good and all-so-bad.
    Good people do bad things and bad people do good things. That's just the way it is. Heroes and villains are only in the movies.

    (I wish there is a short cut but I am not too good at paraphrasing great statements)
  10. polybore
    If you can't eat [it, them] don't have sex with [it, them].
  11. ladylyf
    Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
  12. jefftompkins71
    True sentence: Ernest Hemingway never learned the concept of "economy of words."
  13. MonkeyWrench
    "Know thyself."-- Socrates
  14. Anok
    Life's a bitch.
  15. ClickHere
    The Universe can survive, with us or without us.
  16. rambansal
    Truth is relative, not absolute.
    1. harveyavatar
      So that's not an absolute truth?
  17. codesucker
    I want to have polybores babies?
    1. polybore
      Are you edible?
  18. dsriharsha
    That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.
  19. alantru
    It’s only funny until someone loses an ideology.
  20. thematrix777
    I have Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.
  21. tinatina
    My mother loves me.
  22. satijournal
    Sometimes it just be's that way
    ~ Unknown bluesman
  23. LGramlich
    I "know" nothing.
    1. rainforestrobin
      HaHaHa!! Love it.
  24. misstfied
    Death; it's inevitable.
  25. Achyut
    nothing is permanent
  26. garret35
    I believe in me

    Garret
  27. ThriftShopRomantic
    No matter where you go, there you are.
  28. BeyondBeliefs
    When you are given written permission to live with only ONE person, for Life, then you better make it a good one.
  29. countsneaky
    Stop chasing truth because you might not recognize it when you find it.
  30. wagerwitch
    Every person can only see the world around them through their own perspective....

    No matter how much you try to beat your perspective into them.
  31. harveyavatar
    Truth/Being is not a perspective.
  32. rfburnhertz
    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
    John 1:1
    1. Achyut
      Well this might be the truest sentence John knows...but what about you? We have to write our own sentence here...not something that someone else has said..unless your experience is the same too!
  33. BernieSandwich
    We are going to die.
  34. braincatcher
    Water is wet.
  35. countsneaky
    Be kind to one another...be kind to one another...be kind to one another.
    Count Sneaky
  36. melindaville
    This too shall pass.
  37. mybrainrunslinux
    Truth is relative.
  38. harveyavatar
    If truth is relative, your sentence isn't true.
    1. epiphanizing
      Yes! Thanks for saying so. And isn't even relativity being thrown into philosophical controversy?
    2. countsneaky
      Harv, my friend, you have to lighten up here. My intellectual dysfunction kicked in and I took a pill and experienced a thought that lasted more than four hours, so I had to see my psychatrist immediately. He compounded the problem by reading selections from Proust to me and I then had to go to the ER where I was given injections of old Jay Leno material and was able to return home and get back in my group discussions. Count Sneaky
  39. satijournal
    Life is like setting sail on a ship you know is going to sink.
    1. LGramlich
      Life is a sexually transmitted disease that's fatal in 100% of cases.
    2. iratedog
      HA! I love it.
  40. melindaville
    Sometimes you just gotta hunker down and blow snot bubbles.
    1. satijournal
      Snot bubbles? Is that anything like flatulence bubbles?
  41. jflower36
    Hard to narrow it down... Here's two that I like:

    "He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be reckoned a curse to him"

    "that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God"
  42. gracias
    Jesus wept.
    1. tpaab
      why did Jesus weep?
  43. Tonyboy
    We are all ignorant; it is just a question of to what degree we are ignorant.
  44. SWSamurai
    Truth is when the blue-bird of paradise takes a crap in your eye after binging on mexican food.
  45. xnapoleonx
    Some days you're the dog, some days you're the tree
    1. SWSamurai
      Then other days you are a tree, in a dog park next to a water fountain.
  46. buzzysmama
    Ok, I hope I'm not categorized as a religious nut or anything but the truest phrase I know is, "God's Will won't ever take you where God's grace will not protect you."
    1. epiphanizing
      It's hard to think of the truest thing you know without either going to humor or God. Either something irrelevent, or something sincere. No religious nuttiness perceived, at least not by me.
  47. Jaybetee
    Sometimes you eat the bar, sometimes the bar eats you.
    1. ismsandologies
      Dude-ology 101. It really tied the room together.
  48. lingoslinger
    Change... it's inevitable!

    1. ophase
      I agree
    2. LGramlich
      Except from a vending machine.
  49. buzzysmama
    ty epiphanizing
  50. HorsePucky
    Horse pucky attracts flies.
  51. PearlTrader
    For me the truest sentence is the sentence wich resides in my heart a place from where it can't be removed using "SHIFT" "DELETE".

    Hope, this time not going to be removed ! My intentions were not to hurt anyone.
    1. Jaybetee
      I do not think that the comment was removed because it hurt anyone, but because comments referring to religions and religious figures tend to start arguments rather than spur on a productive discussions lately. I think it was not a disapproval of your comment, but a reaction to certain situations that have occurred in the discussions recently.
  52. becthomasphotograp
    Everyday is one day closer to death.
  53. PearlTrader
    Jaybeete,
    Thanks a lot for ur explaination .

    I agree and have understood why it was removed.
    But sometimes we can't control our words and forget the reactions.
    I understand the requirements of the community, and i hope in future too i shall be taking part in productive discussions i consider it a great chance of leaning more and more.

    So, not disappointed at all.
    Thankful to the community.
    1. becthomasphotograp
      I disagree with your statement; we gave complete control of our words, whether we speak them or type them.
  54. PearlTrader
    Becthomasphotgrap.
    Its good . U have right to disagree.

    My words were controled but just forgot the reaction as it is rightly described in Jaybetee's statement.

    That setence is still the truest one i have ever come to know in my life.
  55. suraj78
    You born poor it is not your mistake, but you die poor it is your mistake.
    1. LGramlich
      Or is it your choice?
  56. Halconite
    L st and foound.
  57. nothingprofound
    If you're glad to be alive, the rest doesn't matter.
  58. ATraveler
    Impossible is nothing
  59. JaydenVasara
    if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
  60. countsneaky
    Perhaps, the truest thing ever spoken is...I love you!
    Count Sneaky
  61. toadsticker
    This sentence has five words.
    TS
    1. countsneaky
      Toadsticker, you did it! This is the essense of this discussion.
      This is the way these discussions should be handled. My best. Count Sneaky
  62. samhaydenjr
    Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.

    Winston Churchill
  63. sarah123
    Broken and beaten down, she used her faith to recreat her life and proved nothing is impossible to accomplish.
  64. dariuswolff
    I will not lie to you until the next time.
  65. irtiza104
    Allah is my creator...
  66. HollytheHousewife
    jesus is my savior!
  67. jerrydrussell
    A happy wife is a happy life
  68. Men101
    I love me
  69. Cheering4u1993
    kindness is love with its work boots on. (yesw, i own housebunny.)
  70. reasonablerobinson
    I know that I don't know (Socrates)
    1. tpaab
      And why do you love God?
  71. RudrakshRudranjali
    Race is not over as I have not won yet
  72. HelloAnnie
    Concentration is key to good memory. I know this not only to be true, but have also written the post on it.

    childhoodspeech.com/2009/05/concentration-is-key-to-good-memory/
  73. Streetmusician
    If in doubt, do it anyway !
  74. hesmai88
    Someday I will die so are you
  75. wehireu
    Adam had 'em.
  76. Rainhat
    The only constant is change.
  77. AchEmpire
    ~Everyone is equal~
  78. mkizzle15
    A life without love is no life at all...
  79. MissSuzie
    People suck... and those who are smiling are lying.
  80. stellak
    We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
  81. hatingtherain
    you are what you do when it counts
  82. Tforch
    What goes around, comes around.

    Time heals all.
  83. LolitaV
    the only reason why i can't be gay
    is that i can't give up the guy.
  84. obviouslydarren
    Shit happens and then you die!
  85. cathy13
    We all die!
  86. cathy13
    Toronto Blue Jays SUCK!
  87. pinkmonkeychatter
    To be human is to make mistakes.
  88. Alcomum
    everybody lies at some stage in their lives
  89. flamingpoodle
    This is a lie.
  90. iratedog
    God is a blogger...:D
    1. becominglast
      Now that would be interesting!
  91. BeyondBeliefs
    '' We were NOT BORN LIMITED to speaking ONE language, saluting ONE flag and worshiping ONE stone god, NOT BORN a ''nationality'' or a ''religion'', and we are ALL still ABLE to BECOME a Human Being by rising above these crippling limits. '' - Thomas T. Panto
  92. BeyondBeliefs
    &
    Repeating a LIE does as much damage to Life as originating a LIE.
  93. bm1sads
    Life is what you make of it!
  94. tpaab
    All good things must end
  95. tpaab
    Even marriages
  96. tpaab
    Even marriages
    1. BeyondBeliefs
      What we all ARE is temporary, but everything we DO ( and don't do ) is FOREVER.
  97. flamingpoodle
    Truth isn't relative
  98. stayfitbug
    No health
    No Wealth
  99. HollytheHousewife
    I love pop rocks!
  100. becominglast
    I just rocked a thousand piece puzzle...and that makes me a nerd :-)
  101. nothingprofound
    In the long run, the truth doesn't matter.
  102. Shuttercraft
    My name is mike.
  103. aspotofblog
    The truth is relative.
  104. nothingprofound
    Only one thing matters: you're not dead yet.
    1. aspotofblog
      Death is a part of life, and death gives life.
  105. dbowles1017
    One plus one is, two.

    Also, Derek is the most awesome person, who has ever lived, and ever will live.
  106. aspotofblog
    One day everyone will die and orbit around Planet Derek.
    1. dbowles1017
      Sounds about right
  107. nothingprofound
    There is no solution because there is no problem.
  108. aspotofblog
    Love it np! Love it!
    1. nothingprofound
      Aspot: Duchamp wrote that, but it's my philosophy in a nutshell. That's why I'm always happy.
  109. Agit8r
    time for Agit8r to do something productive...
    1. nothingprofound
      Agit-you seem on the verge of some Big Change. Good luck.
    2. Agit8r
      actually I just did some disgusting dishes... I'm back now.

      but, yeah, my avatar contains the mathmatical symbol for change Δ
  110. melindaville
    The journey is the destination.
  111. Agit8r
    Wanting to give quacks who malpractice on the elderly legal immunity (Republican plan) is more fascist than end of life councelling
  112. Rich
    There is no future in time travel.
  113. AngieA
    Love is Blind
  114. theindependentrage
    Love your country, but always question your government.
  115. dahstar
    true is your destination in life
  116. AquilusDomini
    Life feeds on life.
  117. nothingprofound
    The personal is our only defense against the impersonal.

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