Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
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[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
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I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, an...
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I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth without ever lying about it...
