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«We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.»
«The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.»
«The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.»
«Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?»
«They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.»
«Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.»
«The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.»
«Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.»
«Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.»
«The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.»

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