Charles de Lint Quotes

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

If I saw Greeley, I would tell him that when I wanted the advice of a political editor in selecting generals I would call on him.

[Referring to Herbert Hoover:] That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years—all of it bad.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Sometimes people get upset when you tell the truth, when you share the facts as science dictates.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

Truth carries with it confrontation.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.