A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

Saul Bellow
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The truth is often hard to hear. When a person says, “From now on I’m going to speak the truth,” he may be speaking the truth, but the truth may not hear him. Is it because the truth hates him? Or is it because the truth has already heard him, but it wants to hear more? The truth hears us when we are ready to hear it.

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