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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door."

"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."

"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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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."

"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

"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."

"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."

"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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