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" The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. "
Oriana Fallaci
Truth
You
Far
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" To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach! "
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