"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."

Truth, Fact, Reality, Will

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"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."

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"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."

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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside."

Stephen King, American Author

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"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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