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Lillian Hellman

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

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"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

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"A lie is a lieeven if everyone believes it."

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

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"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."

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"Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified."

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"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

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"The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth."

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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

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