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Truth exists; only lies are invented.


Georges Braque
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.


Winston Churchill
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.


Plato
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If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.


Alan Gorrie
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Marilynne Robinson
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.


Albert Einstein
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
Tony Campolo
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Georges Bernanos
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
Waris Dirie
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Don Miguel Ruiz
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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.


Thom Gunn
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When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
Johnny Depp
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For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen
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Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen
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In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
Carol Gilligan
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.
Grace Paley
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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
June Jordan
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At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.
Pete Postlethwaite
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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Alveda King