"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
-Leslie Fiedler
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"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.“
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"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
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"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."
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"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
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"It's funny to be a critic."
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"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
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"The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy."
-Carly Fiorina
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"I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise."
-Ron Wyden
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"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."
-Carly Fiorina
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"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
-Gerald R. Ford
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"I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman."
-Bob Kane
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
-Lewis Thomas
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