A Quote by Arthur Miller

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

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Truth Betrayal Only Sticks

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Arthur Miller
American - Playwright
October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

Rumi

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

George Orwell

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

Lucy Corin

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal??Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

Milan Kundera

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else’s.

Jeanette Winterson

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

Wes Fesler

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

Stephen King

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

Sue Monk Kidd

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Stephen King

A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers.

Ari Aster

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

Hilarie Burton

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

Chris Hedges

I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements.

Patrick Marber

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.