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Quote by Graham Greene
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a d

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene

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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same. – Blaise Pascal

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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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