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Lillian Hellman

"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth."

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Donna Grant

"The fact differentiates the fake."

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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

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Donna Grant

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

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"My truth could be very different than your truth."

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Donna Grant

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

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Donna Grant

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

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Donna Grant

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."

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Donna Grant

"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."

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Donna Grant

"Science is a careful investigation."

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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."

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