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H. L. Mencken

"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed."

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"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed."

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"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."

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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."

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"Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm."

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