"The young are not afraid of telling the truth."
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"My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth."
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"Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm."
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"Tell the truth and make it rhyme"
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"I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think"
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"Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed."
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"I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me."
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"I will tell the truth wherever I please."
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"To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company."
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"When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it were a string of stories. And if it's told well enough and in a way that's charming and warm and with wit and humor, then it takes a bit of the edge off of it. You can still tell the truth, but if you tell it very sweetly and very warmly, it makes it go down a bit easier."
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"I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy."
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"None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth."
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"Playing guitar is like telling the truth."
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"It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it."
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"It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually."
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"I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can."
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"All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth."
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"Art is lies that tell the truth."
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