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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

I know that DER SPIEGEL is a respected magazine. But I don't know whether it is possible for you to publish the truth about the Holocaust. Are you permitted to write everything about it?

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.