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"The root system supports the branches."
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"The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth."
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"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this."
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it."
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"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
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"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
Nature
"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."
Work
"May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan."
Action
"I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like."
Writing
"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else."
Movies
"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
Power
"People will always make comparisons."
People
"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
Work
"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."
Truth
"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
Future
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