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

Other quotes by Graham Greene

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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Corruption
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. – Graham Greene

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Alcohol
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another persons habitual misery. – Graham Greene

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Courage
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Truth
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Truth

Language is the house of the truth of Being. – Martin Heidegger

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Truth

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Truth

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesnt work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth – having an object outside of our personal point of view. – Nate Silver

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Truth

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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. – William James

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