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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.