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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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. – Graham Greene

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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. – Eric Hoffer

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

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. – Aldous Huxley

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag

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