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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It’s a paradox that’s at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don’t serve us well because they don’t tell the truth, and they don’t keep their promises.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.