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Truth Quotes
"In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts."
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"We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth."
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"The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do."
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"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
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"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
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"Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries."
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"The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV."
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"I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do."
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"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
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"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect."
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"Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability."
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"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."
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"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?"
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
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"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."
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"All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about."
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"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
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"A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement."
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"As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there."
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"Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show."
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"The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is."
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"I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had."
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