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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. – Graham Greene

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Age
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! – Graham Greene

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Justice is truth in action. – Benjamin Disraeli

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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. – Samuel Johnson

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Weve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, were running a federal deficit thats 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. Its more stimulative than any policy weve followed since World War II. – Warren Buffett

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My way of joking is to tell the truth. Thats the funniest joke in the world. – Muhammad Ali

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln

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