"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."

Katherine Anne Porter, American Journalist

Truth, Fiction, Result, Will

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"My truth could be very different than your truth."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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