Posts Tagged ‘truth’

A lie gets halfway around the world

Monday, June 3rd, 2019

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.

— Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. Photo © J. Elke Ertle, 2016. www.walled-in-berlin.com

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. Photo © J. Elke Ertle, 2016. www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic or current events, people, places or food.

Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.

 

Do people really hunger for truth?

Thursday, October 19th, 2017

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.
— George R.R. Martin

There must be some TRUTH in broccoli? www.walled-in-berlin.com

There must be some TRUTH in broccoli? www.walled-in-berlin.com

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.

 

To Hear the Truth

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

–Friedrich Nietzsche

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, “Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom,” click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

Truth versus Myth

Monday, June 30th, 2014

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

–John F. Kennedy – Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com. Walled-In is a story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.