"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth." — Lillian Hellman

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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

- Lillian Hellman

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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.