"Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever."
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"When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded."
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"I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II"
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"I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly."
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"The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth."
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"Tell the truth and not the facts."
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"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."
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"For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said."
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"Good writing is about telling the truth."
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"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies."
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"I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth"
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"Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner."
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"No one individual can tell the truth."
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"a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)"
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"When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life."
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"I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it."
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"My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth."
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"Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth."
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"If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull."
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"Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true."
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