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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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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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Graham Greene
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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Truth

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon

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Truth

The truth is, I dont have any problem with journalists – I count some of them as friends – also some of my heroes are journalists, Im a big fan of Robert Fisk – great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for whats right. – Daniel Craig

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Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood. – Luigi Barzini

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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. – Maynard James Keenan

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But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. – Lindsey Buckingham

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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. – Sir Winston Churchill

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