"I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'."
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"I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie."
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"Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation."
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"Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?"
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"I don't know General Michael Flynn well, but it's hard for me to believe anybody would allow themselves to be blackmailed by the Russians because they didn't tell the full story or didn't tell the truth to the vice president of the United States who works 50 feet down the hall."
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"It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate."
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"Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all."
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"Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?"
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"Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth."
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"It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose."
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"It is very difficult to tell the truth."
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"One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth."
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"Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies."
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"Telling the truth is absolutely important."
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"The truth will lead me to all."
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"Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all."
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"This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it."
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"You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth."
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