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"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."
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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."
"The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite."
"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
"You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it."
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"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."
"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."
"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."
"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
"I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money."
"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."
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