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Quote by Graham Greene
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

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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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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. – Dorothy L. Sayers

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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? – Arthur Conan Doyle

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People often ask, why arent you reading about what it is youre working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. – David Petraeus

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