You can't get at the truth by writing history; only the novelist can do that.

Gerald Brenan

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Nature of truth Truth History Power of literature Novels

Author

Gerald Brenan

Source

Times Literary Supplement

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Malta Europe

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Citation

Brenan, Gerald. Times Literary Supplement. 28 Nov. 1986.

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Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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Topic
How to live

Author

Robert Fulghum
Source
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1988 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Fulghum, Robert. "Credo." All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. 1986.

Another quote about Truth

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

Sherlock Holmes

The Sign of the Four

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Topic
Process of elimination Logic Truth
Speaker
Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle
Source
The Sign of the Four
Medium
Novel Magazine
Genre
Detective fiction
Language
English
Time
1890 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.