"All we can do is go around telling the truth."
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"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."
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"It feels so good to tell the truth."
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"Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth."
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"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me."
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"Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them."
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"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."
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"I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false."
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"I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be."
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"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it."
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"You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth."
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"A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth."
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"Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world."
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"You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away."
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"I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me."
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"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand"
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"If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it."
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"Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember"
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"An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you."
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"Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating."
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