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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

The truth is a pathless land.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‘You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.’