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Sheri S. Tepper on Truth

1929–2016 United States

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6 quotes

“This is not philosophy, this is reality. Will you please keep in mind what’s going on!”

Six Moon Dance (1998)

To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar?

The Visitor (2002)

To Sylvan truth was truth and all else was black heresy, though on occasion he had the very human difficulty of deciding which was which.

Grass (1989)

What’s coming is reality. Politics has nothing to do with reality!

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

We have a saying, we Gharm. A man who claims to carry the truth, carries an empty sack.

Raising the Stones (1990)

She had grown through loss and confusion into a girl who lived almost entirely inside her head, taking refuge in the places she created there, not so much repulsed by others’ reality as unable to perceive it.

The Visitor (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sheri S. Tepper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.