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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.