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

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Amber Hurdle

"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."

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"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."

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"If you don't want to live in self-deceit in a new year, miracle must not be your focus."

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"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

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"It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."

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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

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"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified."

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"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."

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"The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite."

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"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."

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"People change and forget to tell each other."
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"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
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"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."
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"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
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"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
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"Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier."
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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
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