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Monday, May 2, 2011

Creativity, Originality and Simplicity in Truth

I have always been struck by the profoundness of this statement:
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two-pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." -C. S. Lewis
I think this is so right on - there is a uniqueness and elegance to truth that shouldn't surprise us, but it does. 


A life lived in truth is at peace. Even Mark Twain recognized this when he said, 
"Always tell the truth, then you won't have to remember anything." 

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